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What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

Mata Amritanandamayi

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Love Thinking Word Yourself
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Education Ourselves Study Wonder
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
Try to make others happy, and don’t despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Curse Despair Happiness Light Oneself Small Try
If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Animal Attitude Food God
What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.
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Children Happiness Herself Mom See
In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

End Hate Love Sorrow World
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
There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.
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Death Essence Jealous Live Message Religion True Vision Willing
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
As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
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Emotional Goodness Mindset Performance Purify
Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
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Alone Education Life Live
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Difficult Knowledge Life Protection Spiritual
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Attitude Discrimination Right Understand Yourself
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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Absence Feeling Love Negative Reality
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
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
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Feminine Live Man Marriage Understand Woman
Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Form God Heart Install Love Suffering Worship
Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Live Oneself Present Surrender
In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Death Human Machine World
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
If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
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Fear God Hold
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.
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Material Pursuit Sacrifice Society 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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
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
Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Circumstance Content Mindset Peace Prayer
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Effort Hate Ourselves Removal

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