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"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."
"Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life."
"Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly."
"Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees."
"The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation."
"In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them."
"The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God."
"The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him."
"Renunciation means death of false ego."
"That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness."
"Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion."
"Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are."
"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."
"When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna's arrangement the He never reveals Himself."
"Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us."
"In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization."
"Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude."
"Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly."
"In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain."
"Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world."