Let our effort to discover our own essential nature, that indwelling Universal Power, be a characteristic feature of the new millennium we are about to enter. Let this be recognized as one of the important goals of the next century."
Amma`s address to the United Nations Interfaith Celebration, 1995
"This is the moment to awaken the love and compassion within us. This is the time to pray with our hearts and work with our hands. Let us lend a helping hand to those who are grieving and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion."
Amma`s New Year Message, 2005
“Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.”
Amma
“As long as there is enough strength in these hands to reach out to those who come to her, to place her hand on a crying person’s shoulder, Amma will continue to give darshan. To lovingly caress people, to console and wipe their tears until the end of this mortal frame—this is Amma’s wish.”
Amma
Understanding and Collaboration Between Religions
“Whatever one’s religion, if one understands the spiritual principles, one can attain the Ultimate Goal, the realization of one’s true nature. If a bottle contains honey, the color of the bottle is irrelevant. On the contrary, if we fail to absorb the spiritual principles, religion will be reduced to mere blind faith, shackling us. ... The power of religion lies in spirituality. Spirituality is the cement that fortifies the edifice of society. Practicing religion and living life without assimilating spirituality is the same as constructing a tower by simply piling up bricks without ever using any cement. It will easily crumble.”
Interfaith Center of New York’s Fourth Annual James
Parks Morton Interfaith Award Ceremony, New York, 2006
The Real Change Must Happen Within
“We have stepped into the new millennium with great hopes and expectations of change. But though the numbers denoting the year are different, essentially nothing else has changed. The real change must happen within us. For only when conflict and negativity are removed from within can we play a truly constructive role in establishing peace. Simply transferring the world’s nuclear weapons to a museum will not in itself bring about world peace. The nuclear weapons of the mind must first be eliminated.”
Millennium World Peace Summit,
United Nations General Assembly, New York, 2000
Awakening Universal Motherhood
“The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is inherent in both men and women. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love, and
love is the very breath of life.”
Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious &
Spiritual Leaders at the United Nations, Geneva, 2002
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Amma's Spiritual Addresses
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