Mata Amritanandamayi Quotes

No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.

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

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

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.

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.

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.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.

At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.

You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.

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

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.

Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.

As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

Where there is love, distance doesn't matter.

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.

Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?

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

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

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

Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.

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

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

When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.

The more you give, the more your heart is filled. Love is a never ending stream.

Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

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