Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.
GAUR GOPAL DASPeople who meditate develop a habit of practicing sincere gratitude which helps them in all their relationships. It is a relationship-strengthening emotion because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.
More Gaur Gopal Das Quotes
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Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.
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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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People with a closed mindset want to grow by beating others in their field. Open-minded people, on the other hand, grow by developing themselves.
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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.
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The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.
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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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We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
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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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It is strange that sword and words have the same letters. Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.
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What great men do, common men follow.
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If someone chooses what they love to do, there is no stress in their life. As they say, If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.
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The eyes are the window to the soul,
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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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