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

Mata Amritanandamayi

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Friendship God Reality Relative Religious Yourself
The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God’s favorite place.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Compassion Heart Life Place Spiritual
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Ability Equality God Heart Love Realize
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Care Happiness Intelligence Mindset Object Practice Solitude
A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Bliss Fragrance Happiness Ourselves Search Source
Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Born Experience Human Love Purity Search
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Blessing Happiness Life Soul
Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Acceptance Happiness Life Yourself
Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Alone Aware Beautiful Enough Foundation Fulfill Love Peace Togetherness
Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Live Oneself Present Surrender
Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Goodness Kindness Seek
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Control Happiness Mental Weakness
Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Heart Love Purity Transcendence
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Difficult Knowledge Life Protection Spiritual
Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.
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Ego Experience Happiness Ourselves
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Awareness Compassionate Conscious Constant Effort Patience Practice

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