Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender,… — 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
Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
If you have patience, then you'll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Children, don't waste a single second. Serve others, above all the poor, expecting nothing in return. Just as the person who offers… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share
Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then… — 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
