Members of the Church should be peers or superiors to any others in natural ability, extended training, plus the Holy Spirit which should bring them light and truth. With hundreds of “men of God” and their associates so blessed, we have the base for an increasingly efficient and worthy corps of talent.

INVEST IN YOUR MARRIAGE Spend it — time and money — together. Go on dates. “What that does is enliven the marital foundation,” said Gary S. Shunk, a Chicago therapist who specializes in wealth issues. “It’s a kind of investment into the heart and soul of the relationship.”

Think of it as dollar-cost averaging your marriage, where you make small investments over time. If you wait until retirement, it could be too late.

Melanie Schnoll-Begun, a managing director in the Citigroup Family Office, worked with a couple that waited too long. The husband had amassed great wealth for the family, and his wife kept a beautiful home. But once the husband retired, “they found out that over the years they grew so far apart that they didn’t have enough in common,” she said.

“They had this magnificent wealth, and it was the building of this wealth that ultimately led to their divorce.”

On a practical level, it's a lot easier to deny the existence of other selves than it is to deny your own - you have the direct, irrefutable experience of your own existence.

From the poorest person to the richest person, from the slum-dweller to the person who lives in a mansion, everyone wants more sense gratification and thus more material wealth.

gauranger arotik sobhajaga-jana-mana-lobha

When, oh when will that day be mine? When my offenses ceasing, taste for the name increasing, when in my heart will your mercy shine, when, oh when will that day be mine

The fact that there are at least as many "wealthy" criminals as there are "poor" criminals effectively destroys the materialists' theory that the root cause of crime is poverty and that the solution to the crime problem is to make everybody rich.

Bhaktivinoda calls out: "Except for the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda there is no other shelter!"

The Vedas are the emblematic representations in the shape of hymns dealing with higher knowledge in connection with the present predicament of our intellectual speculation.

These quotes are taken from Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa's (Chris Butler) books