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We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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.
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Compassion Heart Life Place Spiritual
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
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.
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Intellectual Learning Limitation Scope Yourself
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
Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.
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Identify Problem Thinking Yourself
Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.
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Attitude Change Circumstance Control Important Ourselves
Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.
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Faith Lose Optimistic Sorrow
By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.
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Body Harmony Health Live Mind Nature
People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun – the giver of light.
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God Light Offering People Sun Thinking
“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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Gender God Man Question Woman
Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?
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Choice Cry Laughter Time
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.
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Destroy Food Nature Selfish Temporary Water
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.
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Essence Goal Human Life Limitation Love Nature Togetherness True
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
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
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

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