my favorite amma quotes

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"Always understand that Amma is omnipresent. Have faith that Amma's Self and

your Self are one. I am the servant of every one of you. I have no special

place to dwell. I dwell in your heart."

 

" I realize my purpose is to console - to personally wipe away tears

through selfless love, compassion, and service."

 

"Inner peace always follows in the wake of pain. To teach the state of joy,

you first have to experience pain. Pain in the beginning and lasting

happiness at the end is far superior to happiness in the beginning and

long-lasting

pain at the end. Pain is an unavoidable part of life. Without having suffered

in some way, you cannot experience and appreciate peace or happiness."

 

"A Mahatma or a self-realized being is like a river that flows, unhindered

and unperturbed, into everything and without any difference"

 

"Do not blame the circumstances and do not blame others. Remove your own

weaknesses. Your failures and your hurt feelings, your fears and your

troubles, are all due to some weakness within yourself, and this weakness is

known as

ignorncne. You identify with your thoughts which are based on a

misconception."

 

 

"Once the realization of the Self arises, there can be no question of

relationship, because the two disappear. From that point onwards, there is

onely

oneness, and total detachment."

 

"(Like a body) ... everything is a whole, a single unit." ... "If we lay

much emphasis on our relationship with the outer world, while we ignore the

inner world, it will increase the gap between us and our true Self."

 

"The ego can be compared to dead matter, for without the Self it is

insentient. Stop giving any importance to the ego. Learn to ignore it. It

will

then withdraw and disappear."

 

"Don't let your lives go waste by being slaves to your mind and others

opinions."

 

 

(part of a bhajan);

"Stop expecting the fruits

Of your actions

Worship the form of the Universal Self

In the blossom of your heart."

 

 

"Love removes all fears, Compassion transforms all ugliness into beauty."

—Amma

 

"Spiritual knowledge is a burden if carried on the head, but

beautiful if brought into the heart."

—Amma

 

"Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it

expects nothing but gives everything. Pure love is a constant giving up giving

up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the

ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and

judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but

the

emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It

exposes the Self as it is" Amma, Awaken Children Vol4 p246

 

"Isn't it because there is darkness that we know the greatness of light?"

 

"Faith in the Guru fills your heart and soul with immense strength and

courage."

 

"Different kinds of people come to see me, some for devotion, others for a

solution to their worldly problems, and still others for relief from diseases.

I discard none. Can I reject them? Are they different from me? Are we not

all beads strung on the one life thread? According to each one's level of

thinking they see me. Both those who love me and those who hate me are the same

to

me."

 

"In the presence of an Enlightened Master, the closed bud of your heart

opens up effortlessly."

 

 

 

"Salutations to her who delights in blessing the worlds,

moving like a heavenly light, dispelling the darkness."

 

Aum Amritaswaryai Namaha

 

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