Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
RADHANATH SWAMIAny propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.
More Radhanath Swami Quotes
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I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn’t qualify.
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Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.
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Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.
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A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.
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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.
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Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
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Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility
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The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.
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If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
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Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.
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Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
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Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.
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If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.
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Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.
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Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.
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