The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIPure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
More Mata Amritanandamayi Quotes
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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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Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
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A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.
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Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
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Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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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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Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.
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Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
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Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
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Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.
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The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.
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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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One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift, and never waste such an opportunity.
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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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“Is God a Man or a Woman ?” The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.
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When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
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Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
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Each and every living being in nature is part of God’s body.
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Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
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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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Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
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Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.
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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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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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If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.
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