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Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

Mata Amritanandamayi

What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader, Let us become a real servant instead.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Leadership Need Service World
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Care Respect Value
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.
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Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
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Book Learning Nature Object Page
Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
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God Religious Sun Thinking
If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Meditation Prayer Recite Yourself
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.
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Action Attitude Discrimination Right Understand Yourself
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
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
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Love Togetherness
Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.
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See Thinking Travel Way Yourself
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
Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.
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Feeling God Prayer Yourself
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
People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun – the giver of light.
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God Light Offering People Sun Thinking
Don’t go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
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Empty Flower Hand Offering Surrender Symbol Temple
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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Learning Nature Object Ourselves Teaching
Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.
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Eyes God Goodness Myself See Sight
Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
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Boundary Limitation Love Spiritual World
We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.
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Consciousness Man Oneself Remember Universe
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
Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.
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Faith Lose Optimistic Sorrow
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
What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
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Control Mindset Ourselves Peace
When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.
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Compassion Discrimination Himself Love
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
The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.
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Beautiful Charm Death Dedication Humanity Possible Service
Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
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Leadership Oneself Reality Servant

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