Replace behaviors that impede growth with behaviors that nourish it, and the flower of self-realization will bloom.

In a person who understands the self, there can be no ego, there can be no hatred towards anyone. There can only be love, and there is compassion for those who are unfortunate. That is knowledge of the truth.

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.

Bhakti yoga is the science of transforming material into spiritual by harmonizing our relationships, talents, and property in devotion to the Lord.

The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna.

To please the Lord is the only standard of victory and to displease the Lord is a failure, even if we gain the whole world.

Spiritual advancement without mind control is simply an illusion.

Two things are required to achieve Krishna’s mercy: the intervention of a devotee and our own sincerity.

We need to have power of discrimination to understand what are the qualities that we should really look up to and adore.

To the degree we want to serve, to that degree, gradually, according to our sincerity we eliminate all suffering.

Service is the most beautiful expression of the heart.

To love Krishna, we must love everything that Krishna loves – to the same degree as we love Krishna.

There is no big or small service by external considerations. Big and small are seen by Krishna only in reference to the content of our sincerity and the purity of our love.

Our chanting will not uplift our consciousness unless we have co-operative affectionate relationships with each other.

If we let our mind rule over us we will be defeated. The mind makes us lazy, dissatisfied and inattentive. Using our intelligence we must fight against this lethargy with enthusiasm.

If we do something, we should do it for the right reason, for the service of Krishna. If we do it in the service of Krishna, we can’t go wrong.

Maya arranges the material world in a way to keep us away from Krishna.

One of the great mistakes that we commit is short-sightedness.

Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.

By sincerely serving the instructions of great souls in a mood of humility, Krishna is pleased and gives us the higher taste for hearing and chanting.

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

God is the center of everything. When we truly, honestly strive to make Him the goal of our life, God will be pleased with our endeavor even if we fail. He will give us all help, and even in the difficulties we endure in the process, He will bring us closer and closer to Him.

As you may enjoy being swept away by the one you truly love, the bhakti texts tell us that the Supreme enjoys being overwhelmed by the love of each of His pure-hearted devotees.