Do no talk while eating.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIThe 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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Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
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Look upon others as being part of yourself.
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Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life’s problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we’re looking for.
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May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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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.
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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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Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
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Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’
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True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
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Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
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Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.
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First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.
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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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Purify the mind through selfless service.
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Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.
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Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
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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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Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
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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.
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As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
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Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?
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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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We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.
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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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Each and every living being in nature is part of God’s body.
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You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.
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