Radhanath Swami – Quotes

The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.

– Radhanath Swami

The intrinsic problem in trying to enjoy this world is that we are not the controllers.

- Radhanath Swami

A man of God is like the ocean—undisturbed by the rivers that are coming in. The fullness of peace he experiences within is so great that the problems of the world he has to deal with and the suffering he has to go through become insignificant in comparison.

- Radhanath Swami

There has never been a prison built by man that people haven’t figured out how to escape. But what kind of prison God has created…. no walls, no guards and although everyone is suffering in this world no one wants to get out.

- Radhanath Swami

The law of this world is that we take on the qualities of anything or anyone we associate with.

- Radhanath Swami

Being a victim of circumstances. That’s just the nature of the world we live in.

- Radhanath Swami

If we are not striving to improve and go forward, the current of this world will force us to go backward…like swimming upstream in a river.

- Radhanath Swami

Do not take this material world so seriously because it is always changing. Something terrible that we take so seriously today is going to change tomorrow.

– Radhanath Swami

Enlightenment is constant awareness of this world as inherently divine, of life as a loving parnership with God, and every moment as an opportunity to offer and receive love.

- Radhanath Swami