We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
GAUR GOPAL DASLive 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.
More Gaur Gopal Das Quotes
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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.
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A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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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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Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.
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You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.
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Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.
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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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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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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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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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We should deal with each other sensitively; our attitude towards life affects how we act in our relationships.
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Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.
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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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Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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