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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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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
Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.
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Creation Enemy Growth Learning Thankful Yourself
May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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Action Love Thinking Word Yourself
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.
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Attitude Bow Bury Destroy Emerge Form Ourselves Reality Universe
Purify the mind through selfless service.
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Mindset Purity Service
The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.
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Difficult Ego Intellectual Surrender Yourself
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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Born Experience Human Love Purity Search
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
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
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
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
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Awake Human Life Love Nature Spiritual Unity
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
Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.
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Circumstance Content Mindset Peace Prayer
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
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
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

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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