“Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.”

To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

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.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.

Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.