The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
RADHANATH SWAMIThe word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.
More Radhanath Swami Quotes
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To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
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Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.
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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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In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.
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Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
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Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.
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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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When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone’s true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing.
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Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.
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When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.
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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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Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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