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Compassion is an essential element of love.

Radhanath Swami

Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
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Ego Illusion Strength Thinking
Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.
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Existence Expression Limitation Love Spiritual Wonderful
The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.
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Greatness Influence Responsibility
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
Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.
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Compassion Desire Fulfill Heart Selfish
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
In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.
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Happiness Misery Respect Situation
Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.
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Devotional Heart Material Ourselves Service
A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.
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Divine Heart Humility Live People Positive Virtue Way
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
Humility is practical application of knowledge.
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Application Humility Knowledge Practice
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
What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.
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Acceptance Achievement Heart Himself Impression See Touch
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
Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed.
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Deep Enjoyment Love

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