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Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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
Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one’s thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.
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Development Expression Fear Life Person Reality Soul Understand
Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.
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Charity Food Nurture Ourselves Remember Service Soul
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
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
In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.
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Death Human Machine World
Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.
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Cycle Death Form Human Purpose Reality Transcendence
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
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Ability Difference Knowledge True
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
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
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Cry Equality God Oneself
God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
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Ability Equality God Heart Love Realize
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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Life Ourselves People World
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
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
If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
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Fear God Hold
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
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Blessing Happiness Life Soul

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