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Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.

Radhanath Swami

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
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Attraction Determination Fierce God Ornament
If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.
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Activity Leadership Sin Standard Strict
Humility is all about being truthful and honest.
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Honest Humility Truth
To measure whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.
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Depression Humility Measurement Spirituality
Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
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Ego Illusion Strength Thinking
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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Interest Movement Myself Qualification
Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.
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Devotional Heart Material Ourselves Service
Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.
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God Humble
I we are looking for God or an opportunity to learn and enrich our lives in every situation, we will find that, but if we are looking for how am I enjoying or suffering, we are subject to endless frustration.
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Enjoyment Frustration God Learning Opportunity Suffering
Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
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Condition Humble Life Perfection Sincere
To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.
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Creation Degree Ourselves Peace Power
The flip side of happiness is suffering.
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Happiness Suffering
You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.
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Greatness Home Material Thinking World
You can not understand “Scripture” without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.
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Devotee Master Scripture See Sight
Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.
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Attain Devotion Gift
Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.
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Conscious Enjoyment Material
Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we’ve forgotten that it’s our essence.
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Essence God Love Nature Ourselves Purity
What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.
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Acceptance Achievement Heart Himself Impression See Touch
If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.
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Force Love Responsibility
Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility
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Humility Knowledge Theory Touch
When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing.
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Attachment Honor
The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.
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Beginning Consciousness Control Essence Mindset Suffering Tragedy Worst
By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.
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Desire God Hear Heart Ourselves
Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.
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Compassionate Instrument Preach
Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
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Beyond Faith God Intellectual Logic
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.
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Enjoyment Frustration Suffering World
Renunciation means death of false ego.
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Death Ego Fake

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