Feeling 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.
GAUR GOPAL DASFamiliarity 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.
More Gaur Gopal Das Quotes
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When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
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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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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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This happens with all relationships, not just in marriages. If we are not proactive in our relationships, they start to seem dry and become cumbersome. We have to have respect for the other person, which is reflected in how sensitively we treat them.
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The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.
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Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.
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Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.
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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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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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People who meditate develop a habit of practicing sincere gratitude which helps them in all their relationships. It is a relationship-strengthening emotion because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.
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The eyes are the window to the soul,
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A man or a woman is known by the company they keep.
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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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We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
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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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