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Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

Mata Amritanandamayi

The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
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Different Ourselves People Reflection Shine Sun
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
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Age Need Nourish Parents Spiritual Value Young
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
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Confusion Despair Ego Pain Person Philosophy
Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.
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Care Happiness Intelligence Mindset Object Practice Solitude
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
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Act Compassion Selfish Truth
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
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Division Intellectual Scissor Unity
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
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Awake Human Life Love Nature Spiritual Unity
If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.
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God Goodness Heart Life Time
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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Exercise Intellectual Meditation Peace
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.
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Faith Heart Lost Mindset People Reason Spoil
Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.
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Faith Lose Optimistic Sorrow
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Care Respect Value
If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.
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Love Patience Yourself
“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.
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Gender God Man Question Woman
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
The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
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Education Factor Society System Togetherness Value

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