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Mata Amritananda
(Ammachi)
www.amma.org
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Singer' Workshops
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QUOTES
“Chanting is a significant and mysterious
practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that
fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting
opens the heart and makes love flow within
us. It releases such intoxicating inner bliss and
enthusiastic splendor, that simply through the
nectar it generates, we can enter the abode of
the Self.”
Swami Muktananda
“ Just by repeating the Name, that which cannot be understood can be understood. Just by repeating the Name, that which cannot be seen will be seen.”
Jnaneshwar
“We follow a path through the heart and into
the Presence. When we get to the Presence
through the heart . . . yum, yum, yum!”
Ram Dass
“. . . through that one-pointedness (of
chanting), one can merge in the Divine Being
and experience the bliss of one's true self. By
letting the mind expand in the sound of divine
chanting, each one of us can enjoy the peace
born of one's inherent divinity.”
Mata Amritananda (Ammachi)
“When we sit without a demand on this
moment, without waiting for the next moment,
without waiting to get it whatever “it” is
when we are not waiting to get enlightened or
to get love, peace, or a quiet mind, and when we
stop demanding anything from ourselves then
the sacred opens up simply because there is no
demand being made upon.”
Adyashanti
“Foolish selfish people are always thinking of
themselves, and the result is negative. Wise
selfish people think of others, help others as
much as they can, and the result is that they
too reap some benefits. This is my simple
religion. There is no need for temples, no need
for complicated philosophy. Our own brain,
our own heart, is the temple; the philosophy is
kindness.”
The Dalai Lama
“You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul.
You have a body.”
C.S. Lewis
“Chanting isn't about music at all. It's about
engaging in a practice designed to bring you
more fully into yourself. What's being chanted is
what's called in India the divine names.' We're
calling out to our own true selves, our own inner
nature . . . calling out to that place inside of us
that is full and complete, the divine in us: who
we are underneath all our masks, all our roles.
Most people are so outer-directed that they
never experience that place.”
Krishna Das
Believe nothing because a wise person said it.
Believe nothing because it is generally held.
Believe nothing because it is written.
Believe nothing because it is said to be Divine.
Believe nothing because someone else believes it.
But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.
Buddha
“One can realize God through kirtan alone.”
Swami Sivananda
“I salute the light within your eyes where the
whole universe dwells. For when you are at that
center within you and I am at that place within
me, we shall be one.”
Chief Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux
“Kirtan is like a magnet, inviting and begging
grace to enter our hearts and our lives. It is a
most precious thing, something to be cherished
and practiced with total gratitude, and those
who learn how to enter into it will feel God's
grace and presence as the closest of the close,
the dearest of the dear our true beloved.”
Jai Uttal
“We have known experientially the spiritual
planes of reality, and the experience always
comes with the feeling, “I'm home!”
Ram Dass
The source of all abundance is not outside
you. It is a part of who you are. However, start
by acknowledging and recognizing abundance
without. See the fullness of life all around you.
The warmth of sun on your skin, the display
of magnificent flowers outside a florist's shop,
biting into a succulent fruit, or getting soaked
in an abundance of water falling from the sky.
The fullness of life is there at every step. The
acknowledgement of that abundance that is all
around you awakens the dormant abundance
within. Then let it flow out. When you smile at
a stranger, there is already a minute outflow of
energy. You become a giver. Ask yourself often
“What can I give here; how can I be of service to
this person, this situation?” You don't need to
own anything to feel abundant, although if you
feel abundant consistently, things will almost
certainly come to you. Abundance comes only
to those who already have it. It sounds almost
unfair, but of course it isn't. It is a universal law.
Both abundance and scarcity are inner states
that manifest as your reality.”
Eckhart Tolle |
