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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

Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
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Awareness Compassionate Conscious Constant Effort Patience Practice
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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Compassion Discrimination Himself Love
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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Learning Nature Object Ourselves Teaching
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
Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.
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Attitude Beauty Service Society
While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.
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Carry Forget Responsibility Smile
Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.
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Goodness Kindness Seek
Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
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Learning Place Service Suffering
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
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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Accomplishment Action Death Greatness Performance Right
The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.
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Humble Humility Language Love
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
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
Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
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Greatness Happiness Infinite Ourselves Reflection Truth Understand
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
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Children Face Love Spiritual Strong
Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.
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See Thinking Travel Way Yourself
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
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
If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won’t let us down.
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Best Friendship Nature Ourselves Service
Don’t go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
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Empty Flower Hand Offering Surrender Symbol Temple
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
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Control Harmony Mindset
In God’s vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.
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Achievement Existence God Mom Meditation Order Vision
We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.
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Best Ourselves Suffering Try
What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.
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Children Happiness Herself Mom See
We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.
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Consciousness Man Oneself Remember Universe
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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Ability Equality God Heart Love Realize
Our attitude should be: Whatever happens I will remain strong, courageous and happy.
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Attitude Courage Happiness Strong

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.

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