Quotes from Radhanath Swami

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

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.

When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts.

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.

A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.

Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.

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.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.