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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.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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
Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.
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Life Ourselves People World
What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader, Let us become a real servant instead.
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Leadership Need Service World
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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Absence Feeling Love Negative Reality
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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Accomplishment Action Death Greatness Performance Right
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
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Achievement Born Ego Goal Human Life Live Vision World
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
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Angry Rough Word
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
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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Body Exercise Heart Suffering
Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
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Learning Place Service Suffering
Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’
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Belief Decision God Happiness Myself Strong
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
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Expectation Flower Service Throw
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
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Control Harmony Mindset
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
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
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Age Need Nourish Parents Spiritual Value Young
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
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
Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.
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Divine Ego Expression Grace Let Go Open Remain Yourself
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
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Compassion Feeling Pain Suffering
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
You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.
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Grace Place Prediction Yourself
Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.
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Cycle Death Form Human Purpose Reality Transcendence
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
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Ability Difference Knowledge True
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
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Act Compassion Selfish Truth
Do no talk while eating.
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Eat One Liner Talk
A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.
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Bliss Fragrance Happiness Ourselves Search Source
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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Form God Heart Install Love Suffering Worship

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