We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
GAUR GOPAL DASOur association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.
More Gaur Gopal Das Quotes
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Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.
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Hot heads do not give good feedback – choose a better time.
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Having a friend to listen to your problems and discuss them with you is the beginning of finding a solution.
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We need to understand the hierarchy of connections. Ultimately, we must connect to something above ourselves such as God. This can give us the power to spread happiness and joy around the world.
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Physical violence is inflicted with weapons, but emotional violence is inflicted with words; words can leave invisible scars that can take years, or even lifetimes, to heal.
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The paradox of our times is that those who have the most can often be the least satisfied.
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Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.
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Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.
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Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.
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We should deal with each other sensitively; our attitude towards life affects how we act in our relationships.
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What great men do, common men follow.
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Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny. It all begins with a thought.
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This happens with all relationships, not just in marriages. If we are not proactive in our relationships, they start to seem dry and become cumbersome. We have to have respect for the other person, which is reflected in how sensitively we treat them.
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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