Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.
GAUR GOPAL DASFeeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.
More Gaur Gopal Das Quotes
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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We should deal with each other sensitively; our attitude towards life affects how we act in our relationships.
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Live your life in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God will come to know God because they know you.
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To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.
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Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.
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Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.
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If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.
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As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.
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It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.
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One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.
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At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.
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A man or a woman is known by the company they keep.
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If someone chooses what they love to do, there is no stress in their life. As they say, If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
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