Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.
The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.
Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.
Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?