Mata Amritanandamayi
The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.Collection: Spiritual
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.Collection: Nature
What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.Collection: Children
In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.Collection: Age
It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.Collection: Glasses
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.Collection: Past
As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.Collection: Emotional
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.Collection: Spiritual
Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.Collection: Kids
The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.Collection: Spiritual
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Spiritual
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.Collection: Deeds
If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won't let us down.Collection: Nature
Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.Collection: Children
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Mother
The heart sends blood to every cell of the body, and in this way the cells are nourished. The same blood then flows back to the heart. If the flow is obstructed, the person will die. We need to learn this process of give and take from the heart. For the benefit of others, and also for ourselves, we should have the attitude of caring and sharing. We are all links in the chain of life. If one link is weakened, it will affect the strength of the whole chain.Collection: Attitude
Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.Collection: Mind
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 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.Collection: Goal
Faith in a higher power helps us to control our mind and thoughts.Collection: Meditation
For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.Collection: Meditation
Everyone in the world should sleep without fear at least for one night, sleep without fear. Everyone in the world should eat to their fill, at least for one day, eat to their fill. There should be one day when there is no violence, no one is injured, no one is harmed. All people young and old should serve the poor and needy, at least for one day serve selflessly. This is my dream....this is my prayer. Love is the answer, love is the way. Love is the answer, love is the way.Collection: Love
The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.Collection: Dream
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.Collection: Effort
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.Collection: Together
Love sustains everything.Collection: Love
Everything is God, there is nothing else but God.Collection: Meditation
Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.Collection: Love
Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.Collection: Love
Our attitude should be: Whatever happens I will remain strong, courageous and happy.Collection: Spiritual
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.Collection: Relationship
A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.Collection: Destiny
Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.Collection: Thinking
The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.Collection: Dedication
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.Collection: Relationship
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.Collection: Love
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.Collection: Nature
Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.Collection: Nature
Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.Collection: Discipline
Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.Collection: Prayer
You can lead a truly spiritual life while remaining a householder. You will be able to enjoy the bliss of the Self, but your mind has to be on God all the time. Then you can easily attain bliss. A mother bird will be thinking of the young ones in the nest, even when she is out looking for food. Similarly, you have to keep your mind on God, while engaged in all worldly actions. The important thing is to be completely dedicated to God or the Guru. Once you have that dedication, the goal will not be far away.Collection: Relationship
Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.Collection: Spiritual
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.Collection: Yoga
Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.Collection: Spiritual
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.Collection: Effort
Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.Collection: Spiritual
The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru's body and to serve them accordingly.Collection: Selfless
Look upon others as being part of yourself.Collection: Relationship