Mata Amritanandamayi Quotes - Page 2

Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.

Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.

We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.

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.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.

Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.

The only way we can feel free is by feeling the pure love within.

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.

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.

If you have patience, then you'll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won't be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.

In this universe it is Love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

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.

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.