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The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Accept Happiness Situation Surrender Understand Yourself
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
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
Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
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Charity Children Save Simplify
Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
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Boundary Limitation Love Spiritual World
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
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
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 are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Goodness Heart Life Time
Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.
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Children Himself Meditation Presence Worship
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
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
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Body Control Happiness Mental Weakness
Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Art Effort Learning Relax Yourself
In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.
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Death Human Machine World
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
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

The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

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The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

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