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When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.

Radhanath Swami

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.
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Act Love Ourselves People Responsibility Trust
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.
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Environment Influence Leadership Life Religious Spiritual Vote
The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation.
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Creation Glory Joy Soul
To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.
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Attitude Humble Service
The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.
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Greatness Inspirational Leadership
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.
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Essence Freedom Life Properly Spiritual
The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.
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Fall Fall In Love God Feeling Yourself
If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
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Fools Humility Praise
We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering.
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Compassionate God Instrument Suffering
Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.
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Depression God Humility Intense Reality
There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
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Desire Fake Humble Humility Practice
Lord’s love manifests in this world as compasssion.
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Compassionate Love Manifestation World
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
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Duration Food Habit Life
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
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Detachment God Need Offering
The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.
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Gentle Humility Pride Transformation Way
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

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