Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

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.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.