Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind The Bhagavad Gita

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.[Trans. Purohit Swami]

Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.

Lord! Give me that intelligence, so I may realize the Self.Give me spiritual riches, so I may learn better to share.Give me that knowledge, where pupils come from everywhere, So I may serve better.

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.

Drew, a friend helping Loren in her research, "...This may be the most important class I’ve never paid for nor received credit hours for taking. Let’s lift our glasses to Professor Finkel!

Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one talks of it in the present or past tense?

Merely renouncing all activities yet not engaging in the devotional service of the Lord cannot make one happy But a thoughtful person engaged in devotional service can achieve the Supreme without delay

Man s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself to ideas which are larger than his individual life the idea of his country of humanity of God

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness the path is selfless work For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord the path is stillness and peace The Bhagavad Gita

All purposes served by a small Well: can at once be served by a great reservoir of water Similarly all the purposes of the Vedas can be served to one who knows the purpose behind them The Bhagavad Gita

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire.