Radhanath Swami Quotes

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.

I can show you new things, have you feeling spiritual.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world - as Gandhi said - I couldn't contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.

The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.