"When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan."
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"The flip side of happiness is suffering."
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"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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"Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally."
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"Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic."
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"Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service."
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"To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want."
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"If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service."
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"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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"Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good."
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"We, as parents, must understand the serious responsibility that we have in inculcating love for God in the hearts of children. If our children do not feel love they will not understand God’s love because the love of the parent is translated to the children as the love of God. When they feel their parents' love, they can actually begin to understand God’s love."
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"The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna"
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"According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us."
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"To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down."
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"If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard."
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"Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence."
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"Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart."
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"There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in The Journey Home. I loved my family and they loved me, so making a choice so completely different from the life they knew was also a challenge. Not having material possessions or the security of a home and taking vows of celibacy for life were kind of natural for me, although they were also challenging. But I guess the greatest challenge for me was that I loved so many different spiritual paths."
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"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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"I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world - as Gandhi said - I couldn't contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search."
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