“We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna’s message.”

According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.

We can’t really digest food unless there’s hunger. So we can’t really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

When one’s eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.

Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.

The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

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.

Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

I thought I’d spent too much of my life listening for some damn man – for my father and now for my husband.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

The wisest among us are the ones who calmly listen and speak in the face of adversity.

We live in a time filled with noise but with exceptionally few listeners.

Half the time I feel like I’m talking to the wall because you don’t react at all and then the shock comes when I begin to scream that I just want somebody to listen to me.

We just play whatever we’re into. For a while there, we weren’t listening to too much rap stuff, ’cause there wasn’t anything interesting.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.