Associating with other bhakti-yogis will help us to develop the strength of hope and faith. In school, usually we find the teacher that affected us the most was the person who appreciated what we could do. From a material prospective I wasn’t a very good student. But when I think back about my studies, my favorite teacher was not the person who gave the most profoundly comprehensive talks, but rather the person who believed in the potential of what I could do. He saw something in me that I was too distracted to recognize myself. So this teacher, he brought that quality and later, when I went to India and met my guru Srila Prabhupada, it was magnified ever that much more. Read more › Associating with other bhakti-yogis will help us to develop the strength of hope and faith. In school, usually we find the teacher that affected us the most was the person who appreciated what we could do. From a material prospective I wasn’t a very good student. But when I think back about my studies, my favorite teacher was not the person who gave the most profoundly comprehensive talks, but rather the person who believed in the potential of what I could do. He saw something in me that I was too distracted to recognize myself. So this teacher, he brought that quality and later, when I went to India and met my guru Srila Prabhupada, it was magnified ever that much more. Read more ›