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Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attitude Bow Bury Destroy Emerge Form Ourselves Reality Universe
Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Accept Happiness Situation Surrender Understand Yourself
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Focus Love Oneself Patience Purity Selfless Time
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one’s thoughts and actions.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Quality Reflection Spiritual Thinking True
Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Essence Goal Human Life Limitation Love Nature Togetherness True
The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Education Factor Society System Togetherness Value
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Cry Equality God Oneself
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don’t die of starvation, only human beings.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Human People Poverty Starve
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attachment Expression Freedom Past Worry
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Charity Food Nurture Ourselves Remember Service Soul
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Confusion Despair Ego Pain Person Philosophy
Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Education Equality Heart Importance Intellectual Need System
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Hands Herself Right Wound
Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Choice Cry Laughter Time
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Angry Rough Word

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