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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

Radhanath Swami

A virtue which is divine is humility.
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Divine Humility Virtue
The flip side of happiness is suffering.
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Happiness Suffering
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
When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts.
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Difficult Face Faith Heart Master Mercy Spiritual
In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.
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Condition Lose Nature Understand Value
Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.
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Close Pass Time
Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.
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Arrogant Attraction God Humility
Renunciation means death of false ego.
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Death Ego Fake
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
To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
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Community Humility Need Nourish Protection
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
If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong
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Attack Material Wrong Yourself
Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
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Compassionate Mindset Reality Soul
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
An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.
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Athlete Face Ourselves Resistance Strength Struggle
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
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Attachment Complete God Perfection Yoga
If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God’s children, then we recognize it as spiritual. But if we use our body for more selfish purposes, then we’re only experiencing its material conception.
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Beautiful Body Children Concept Engage Experience God Live Material Purpose See Temple
Speak the essence and live by it.
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Essence Live Talk
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
Don’t let a breath escape from your body without Krishna’s name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
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Body Breathe Determination Escape Life Name Yourself
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 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
Application of humility is service.
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Application Humility Service
When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.
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Anxiety God Happiness Object
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
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Devotee Impression Poverty Way
A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.
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Gratitude Heart Select Yourself
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

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