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Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.
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Anger Animal Emotion Experience Love Sorrow
Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.
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Children Himself Meditation Presence Worship
Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
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God Religious Sun Thinking
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
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Expectation Heaven Love Need Search
Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.
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Alive Boredom Children Flower
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don’t die of starvation, only human beings.
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Human People Poverty Starve
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.
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Education Ourselves Study Wonder
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
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Body Change Forget Important
While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.
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Carry Forget Responsibility Smile
Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
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Each Other Human Peace Reality
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
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Ego Human Nature Optimism Stop Suffering
As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
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Emotional Goodness Mindset Performance Purify
What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader, Let us become a real servant instead.
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Leadership Need Service World
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
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Attachment Expression Freedom Past Worry
Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person’s sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.
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Hands Herself Right Wound

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