Amma's Quotes

#1. I wasn't an expert on feelings, but Amma's were all stirred up in cake batter, and she wasn't about to share them. She'd rather give away the cake.

Kami Garcia

#2. In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: "I wish I'd be murdered." Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

Gillian Flynn

#3. Reading cards again? What are they saying tonight, Amma?

Kami Garcia

#4. Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God?
Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia

#5. The other is not outside you but living within you.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#6. Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#7. As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#8. Life is relationship and the best form of relationship is friendship.

Shri Amma Bhagwan

#9. Amma gave me some of her best stinkeye. How does a bird know to fly south? How does a catfish know how to swim? I don't know how many times I have to tell you, Ethan Wate. They don't call me a Seer for nothin'.

Kami Garcia

#10. Amma and Malati called her a beggar, a whore, and it was clear from the disbelief on her face that she had never been spoken to in such manner. [....] On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.

Vivek Shanbhag

#11. It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

Kami Garcia

#12. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses, as Amma would say.

Kami Garcia

#13. If you discover love you will know exactly how to live.

Shri Amma Bhagwan

#14. Just forgive her in the name of God," Amma said of Abida. "Maybe it's good for you and her that she moved on with her life. Think positively that God gave your life back not to destroy with someone who failed to keep her promise.

Anand Giridharadas

#15. What my friends didn't know about me and I didn't know about Amma is that people who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#16. To a woman in whom the state of true motherhood has awakened, all creatures are her children. This love, this motherhood, is Divine Love---and that is GOD.

Amma

#17. Forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#18. If you are still worried, it means, you have not surrendered yet !

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#19. Amma Sarah knew that her spiritual power was infinite if she could truly forget herself and allow Christ to work through her.

Kate Cooper

#20. Living in the present is the living in the presence ...

Shri Amma Bhagwan

#21. What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#22. Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother's medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or did it keep me from getting more ill than I'd have been without it?

Gillian Flynn

#23. Don't spit down my back and tell me it's raining.

Kami Garcia

#24. Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

Vivek Shanbhag

#25. Unless you learn to deal with your life in its entirety,
there is no permanent solution for human problems.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#26. Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.

Vivek Shanbhag

#27. Have a creative day as you contemplate today on ...
Having an idea is not a problem. Identification with the idea creates the problem.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#28. To be able to put oneself in another's position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.

Amma

#29. Only humility will help us grow. The feeling of I and mine obstructs any possibility of inner growth.

Amma

#30. But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

Kami Garcia

#31. was sure that she had because she flew through the questions.

Amma Lee

#32. Time spent in meditation is as precious as gold.

Amma

#33. Mind, breath and kundalini are connected; handle one, the other two gets affected automatically.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#34. Guilt is non-acceptance. Repentance is acceptance.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#35. As Amma used to say, the good thing about the truth is it's true, and there's no arguing with the truth.

Kami Garcia

#36. The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#37. My mother was lost to me, but I wasn't lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.

Kami Garcia

#38. What did you do to Amma?"
"I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his.
"Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?"
"Started out sharp and then she sharpened it.

Kami Garcia