Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life. Goswami Kriyananda More Quotes by Goswami Kriyananda More Quotes From Goswami Kriyananda Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment Goswami Kriyananda attachmentignorancememories The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them. Goswami Kriyananda secret-to-successsecretbelieve 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 Kriyananda diversitydistanceislands To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment. Goswami Kriyananda present-momentmomentshappiness Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy. Goswami Kriyananda singingbirdhappiness Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness. Goswami Kriyananda causesfeelshappiness If you want to know me, listen to my music. Goswami Kriyananda know-meknowswant Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline. Goswami Kriyananda religiouspracticespiritual Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again. Goswami Kriyananda runninglongthinking Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it. Goswami Kriyananda knows The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness. Goswami Kriyananda paingoaltwo The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals. Goswami Kriyananda strongeressencepeople Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force. Communism made a great mistake in trying to inflict its beliefs on everybody. People have to find their own understanding, and if you can offer them an example that will inspire, they will come naturally to it. Ananda tries to offer this inspiring example. Goswami Kriyananda mistakepeoplethinking I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I kept coming back to the thought that without God I can't get to what I'm looking for. Goswami Kriyananda childhoodcoming-backart
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