“The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.”

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

“I had Krishna and I have lost Him.” That is humility.

For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering.

Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.

Speak the essence and live by it.

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world – as Gandhi said – I couldn’t contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.

Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!