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There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

Radhanath Swami

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.
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Deep Pain Pleasure Source World
Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.
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Attain Devotion Gift
To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
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Community Humility Need Nourish Protection
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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God Love Manifestation Purity Soul Source
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
Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.
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Holy Humility Name Ourselves Present Sincere
Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.
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God Humble
We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna’s message.
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Life Listening Message Sober Suffering
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
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
For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.
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Death Devotee End Liberty Open
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
Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.
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Character Circumstance Development Growth Humility Reality Religion
A virtue which is divine is humility.
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Divine Humility Virtue
If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.
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Connection Essence Face God Opportunity Seek Situation Trial Wisdom
The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.
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Ourselves Pain Progress Spiritual Suffering Way

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