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Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
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Cry Equality God Oneself
First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.
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Harmony Human Mindset Place
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
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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Burden Creation Feeling Flower heavy Light Love Yourself
Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
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Leadership Oneself Reality Servant
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
Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
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Help Important Ourselves Responsibility
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.
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Body Goodness Maintain Mindset Talk Work
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
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
The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.
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Change Ourselves
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
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Attachment Expression Freedom Past Worry
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
Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.
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Anger Animal Emotion Experience Love Sorrow
Don’t be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.
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Capacity Darkness Inspirational Kindness Worth Yourself
Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
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Charity Children Save Simplify
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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God Goodness Heart Life Time
Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
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Alone Education Life Live
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
What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.
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Children Happiness Herself Mom See
Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.
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Alive Boredom Children Flower
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
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
Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
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Greatness Past Sage Satisfaction Spirituality Yourself
Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.
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Art Effort Learning Relax Yourself
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
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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Division Intellectual Scissor Unity

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