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Mata Amritanandamayi
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Widely known as Amma, she is a revered spiritual leader and humanitarian who offers solace through her practices of hugging and charitable work. Her teachings emphasize compassion, selfless service, and the importance of spiritual realization. Amma's global outreach includes extensive social and charitable initiatives, focusing on education, healthcare, and disaster relief, reflecting her commitment to alleviating suffering and promoting human values.

Mata Amritanandamayi Icon Image
Mata Amritanandamayi
Quotes

Widely known as Amma, she is a revered spiritual leader and humanitarian who offers solace through her practices of hugging and charitable work. Her teachings emphasize compassion, selfless service, and the importance of spiritual realization. Amma's global outreach includes extensive social and charitable initiatives, focusing on education, healthcare, and disaster relief, reflecting her commitment to alleviating suffering and promoting human values.

Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is.

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Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Where there is love, distance doesn't matter.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

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Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.

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In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

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

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Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.

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If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

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

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