"It’s a cold rain on this cold morning / Raining cats and dogs they say  / Why not raining birds and bees / Or better yet let it rain love and kindness."

There is a quid pro quo built into every relationship, every institution. Honor and tradition, the results of quid pro quo, are unifying principles which transform a group of individuals into a society of peoples.  …

Seekers of the truth would be wise to look beneath the surface of the social diseases to the spiritual amnesia that gives rise to the affliction of misidentification; the illusory perception of the eternal spirit …

"Continue democracy"? But didn't Srila Prabhupada say that democracy was demon-crazy? He did; and more than once; but he said many more things.

Life and death seem separated by a thinner, more transparent space than usual, and no one knows what tomorrow may bring. 

A hard, hard year has just ended / Yet many normal things remain suspended / Leaving us with problems far greater than we’d conceived / Exposing our existence to be frailer than we’d believed

We need to have good communication skills to be able to have conversations about tough topics and to maintain openness and trust in the relationship. Part of this means knowing when to stop talking.

The worst part of such entanglement is that we don’t even realize we are getting entangled.