Quotes by Shri Mataji

I was a child, very small, when I was in school I used to go to the library and read about the lives of great men who have created some great things for us. So many of them. And I was so impressed how some of them were so simple, so child-like. For example Abraham Lincoln for whom I have tremendous, tremendous respect…

...Take the case of all the great people who have been innocent; and that's why they had ideals. To them their ideals were more important than anything else, even (than) their lives. Everything was nothing. Now the sense of ideals and idealism comes only from your innocence. That's the one which teaches you what is your ideal; how you should exist; what kind of a life you should lead.
Shri Ganesha Puja,  Cabella, on the15th of September, 2001
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We talk of friendship. We say that we have to have a very global understanding of each other, we should try to help each other. It does not work out because man is still in the state where he cannot see that we are part and parcel of the whole.
London, on the 6th of July 1998
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SM: Spirituality is when you are enlightened by your spirit, when the light of the spirit shows you the right path, straightforward, that’s what is spirituality. It’s not just talking about it, it’s not just preaching about it, but it is something within you that should happen, that you can see for yourself what is right and what is wrong - then it is spirituality.

Translator: A message for humanity.
SM: Message? I have already said that you have to become the spirit. You are to be born again, and that born again is that you know "your Self".
Interview Versiglia, in August 2001
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It is not just a certificate. It is not a self-opinion that we are born again. Nor is it an artificial baptism. It is a real happening. It is a living happening within ourselves, which has to take place.
This happening, once it takes place, you achieve that new dimension which we call as collective consciousness, by which you become collectively conscious.

All problems of humanity are because we have not yet found our spirit, which is a collective being. All international problems, all your political problems, all your economic problems come from that one thing which has not yet happened to human beings. You are still in transition.
London 1982 (both quotes)
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What do you have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.
2001, at Shivaratri
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Actually when we are close to a mountain we cannot see much of it, and that’s why we don’t realize the volume that is so close to us, the greatness that is facing us.  This is one of the illusions that works out, for people who do not realize it mentally what they are in for, where are they, what have they found, what is self-realization, what is its magnitude, how far they have to go, why are they chosen, what is their purpose of life, how far they have come up, how far they can understand? All these things are beyond the grasp, and one gets stunned.
One does not know what has happened to him when he has got his realization actually.
DCB  V.5.28.Jul 85.p4
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