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 AMRITANANDAMAYIWe should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
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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.
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Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.
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As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
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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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Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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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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Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
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Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.
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Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
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We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.
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Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you.
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In God’s vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.
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Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.
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When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
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