The Journey Within Quotes

“Another quality of salt is that it remains hidden even though it adds flavor to a dish. People praise a dish by appreciating the quality of its grains or vegetables or spices, but no one says, ‘The salt in this dish was fabulous!’ Like salt, true yogis serve without wanting recognition or praise. They are happy to give credit to others and interested simply in doing their best to give pleasure to the Divine and benefit others.”
― Swami Radhanath, The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti

“We can all choose to live and die depressed or with gratitude.”
― Radhanath Swami, The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti

“I have no way to repay your love. I can only give you myself. —RAMAYANA (RAMA TO HANUMAN AS THEY EMBRACE)”
― Swami Radhanath, The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti

“Sustainability is about directing the passion of creation to a point of balance and preservation, including self-preservation. Because there can be no self-preservation if we don’t conserve the earth, it is crucial to our well-being that we recognize a simple truth: if we do not balance our creative passion with the sustaining quality of goodness, it will by default degrade to the debilitating influence of ignorance. The model we have now is passion leading to ignorance, creation leading to destruction.”
― Swami Radhanath, The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti

“Both our possessions and our talents are divine property entrusted to us, and we are truthful when we recognize that and use them with humility and gratitude.”
― Swami Radhanath, The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti

“I was begging for answers to questions that sprang from a place so deep in me that they overshadowed all other concerns.”
― Swami Radhanath, The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti

“The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched,
but can be felt by the heart. —HELEN KELLER”
― Radhanath Swami, The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti