“Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.”

—  Chinmayananda Saraswati

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.

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