Harold George Koenig famous quotes

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Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.
-- Harold George Koenig

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Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.
-- Harold George Koenig

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People who practise a religion have been found to be happier, healthier and less stressed than those who don't.
-- Harold George Koenig

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The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

Harold George Koenig famous quotes

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