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It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Goodness Kindness Seek
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Control Harmony Mindset
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
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Focus Love Oneself Patience Purity Selfless Time
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Life Ourselves People World
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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Accomplishment Action Death Greatness Performance Right
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Achievement Existence God Mom Meditation Order Vision
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.
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Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Emotional Goodness Mindset Performance Purify
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Couple Reach Sex Stage
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
If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Fear God Hold
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attitude Bow Bury Destroy Emerge Form Ourselves Reality Universe
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
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Compassion Heart Life Place Spiritual
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Consciousness Man Oneself Remember Universe

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