Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Instead of "I love you," it would be better to say "I am love-I am the embodiment of Pure Love." Remove the I and you, and you will find that there is only Love. It is as if Love is imprisoned between the I and you. Remove the I and you, for they are unreal; they are self-imposed walls that… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share
Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up-… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around;… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share
Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
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… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
In this universe it is Love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
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,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share
Isn't it human beings who impart vitality to the image in the temple? If no one sculpts the stone, it doesn't become an image. If no one installs it in the temple, it does not acquire any sanctity. If no worship is done, it does not acquire any power. Without human effort there cannot be any temples. What is wrong… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share
