“Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.”

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 we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna’s arrangement the He never reveals Himself.

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

Humility is practical application of knowledge.

You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it’s, ‘Oh, he’s sold all these records, and now he thinks he’s all that.’

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

I put castor oil in my eyebrows. And I also tint my eyebrows when I get them cleaned up. That way, I don’t have to be constantly filling them in, because I’m lazy.

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

I felt it. I heard the snap of my heart tearing in half. It wasn’t a messy, dirty rip like I’d expected, but a smooth, clean line that knew just where to break to hurt me the most.