Anandamayi Ma

"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. When the flower is not there, you can invite bees endlessly without success."

"I am not, yet I am. This is the mystery of my existence."

"The world is the playground of the Divine Mother."

"Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"Your duty is to act, not to worry about the results."

"The goal of life is to realize the Divine."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"Suffering is the gift of life."

"The Self is eternally free and eternally realized."

"All that comes will go, but the Divine remains."

"In the garden of my heart, only flowers of love bloom."

"The Mother is everything - the origin, sustenance and dissolution of all."

"Time is not a straight line but a circle of eternal return."

"Truth cannot be spoken; it can only be lived."

"The Divine is in every particle of existence."

"I am like a little child, always wondering at the miracle of existence."

"Surrender is the highest form of strength."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot comprehend."

"Grace flows where gratitude dwells."

"To love all beings as oneself - this is the path."

"The world is a mirror of your inner state."

"Peace comes not from understanding everything, but from accepting mystery."

"Every moment is an opportunity for transformation."

"The Divine dances through all forms."

"Patience is the ornament of the strong."

"In silence, the Divine speaks most clearly."

"Love is the only eternal truth."

"The Mother plays hide and seek with herself in creation."

"Fear is the absence of trust in the Divine."