“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.”

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts.

Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one’s relationship with the spiritual master.

I just didn’t know where I fit in – I didn’t seem to fit in my parent’s generation. I didn’t seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

If we are truly humble , we will co-operate.

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

You can not understand “Scripture” without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

The challenge of co-operation in today’s age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It’s a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn’t understand its responsibility and feels more like it’s an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.