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Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility

Radhanath Swami

Renunciation doesn’t mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.
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Give Up Heart Ourselves
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
In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.
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Deep Pain Pleasure Source World
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
Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility
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Humility Knowledge Theory Touch
Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.
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Cleaning Experience Freedom Religious Time
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
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
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
Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, “Guru Kripa”, it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.
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Acceptance Bondage Destiny Karma
The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. It’s really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
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Cleaning Ego Follow God Heart Patience Voice
Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.
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Crying Forever God Temporary World
Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.
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Bondage God Lose Surrender Thinking Willing Yourself
I just didn’t know where I fit in – I didn’t seem to fit in my parent’s generation. I didn’t seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Fulfill Generation Meaning Parents Search Spiritual Understand
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
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

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