In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
Goswami KriyanandaThe secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.
Goswami KriyanandaWhatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
Goswami KriyanandaIf you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there.
Goswami KriyanandaRealize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.
Goswami KriyanandaIf you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.
Goswami KriyanandaIf it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.
Goswami KriyanandaLeadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.
Goswami KriyanandaHappiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.
Goswami KriyanandaThe secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
Goswami KriyanandaThe secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.
Goswami KriyanandaThe thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.
Goswami KriyanandaLearn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.
Goswami KriyanandaBecome more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
Goswami KriyanandaWe've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.
Goswami KriyanandaA deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.
Goswami KriyanandaI've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!
Goswami KriyanandaMaturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.
Goswami KriyanandaSociety cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.
Goswami KriyanandaBut what is your true self is the God within you who became you, and when you realize that you are not yourself but you are he, then you discover that you and he are one, just as Jesus said. Jesus was a great master, and he had great teachings for the world, and when it says in the Bible, "All those who received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God."
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