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

Mata Amritanandamayi

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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Children Himself Meditation Presence Worship
Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Leadership Oneself Reality Servant
Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Creation Enemy Growth Learning Thankful Yourself
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Children Face Love Spiritual Strong
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Awake Human Life Love Nature Spiritual Unity
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Development Expression Fear Life Person Reality Soul Understand
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
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Body Change Forget Important
Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.
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Eyes God Goodness Myself See Sight
We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Best Ourselves Suffering Try
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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Exercise Intellectual Meditation Peace
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
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Act Compassion Selfish Truth
The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.
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Change Ourselves
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
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Focus Love Oneself Patience Purity Selfless Time
Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.
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Circumstance Content Mindset Peace Prayer
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
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Couple Reach Sex Stage
The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.
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Allow Death Greatness Life Live Place Tragedy
Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.
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Body Heart Love Purity Transcendence
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Cry Equality God Oneself
A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
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Change Destiny Person Power
Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Help Important Ourselves Responsibility
The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru’s body and to serve them accordingly.
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Body Himself Learning Love See Teacher
Look upon others as being part of yourself.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

See Sight Yourself
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
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
Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.
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Faith Lose Optimistic Sorrow
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
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Ego Human Nature Optimism Stop Suffering
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

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