“Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.”

It’s better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.

The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.

To kill nothing, that is love.

Christ means Krishna, love of Godhead, Who has His face annointed with tilak.

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.

Begin challenging your own assumptions.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end.