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Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

Mata Amritanandamayi

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Faith Heart Lost Mindset People Reason Spoil
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Act Compassion Selfish Truth
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attachment Expression Freedom Past Worry
Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Creation Enemy Growth Learning Thankful Yourself
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Hands Herself Right Wound
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Focus Love Oneself Patience Purity Selfless Time
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Angry Rough Word
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Intellectual Learning Limitation Scope Yourself
While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Education Factor Society System Togetherness Value
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Children Himself Meditation Presence Worship
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Alive Boredom Children Flower
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Exercise Intellectual Meditation Peace
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Education Ourselves Study Wonder
“Is God a Man or a Woman ?” The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Gender God Man Question Woman

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