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Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

Radhanath Swami

Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.
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Devotee Known Offend
When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone’s true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing.
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Glory Greatness Humble Joy Precious Recognition Share True
Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.
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Encouragement Forgiveness Movement Spiritual
The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna
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Auspicious Close Ourselves Situation
If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.
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Activity Leadership Sin Standard Strict
Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
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Give Up Heart Ourselves
If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong
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Attack Material Wrong Yourself
If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.
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Enjoyment Frustration Suffering World
Humility is practical application of knowledge.
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Application Humility Knowledge Practice
We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.
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Break Empowerment Essence Religion Seek
Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.
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Bondage God Lose Surrender Thinking Willing Yourself
A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.
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Divine Heart Humility Live People Positive Virtue Way
Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.
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Disturb Faith Live People Reality Responsibility Speak
In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.
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Happiness Misery Respect Situation
We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering.
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Compassionate God Instrument Suffering
Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we’ve forgotten that it’s our essence.
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Essence God Love Nature Ourselves Purity

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

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