Courage and strength, and please, change of place of residence and surroundings don’t matter at all; only the change of our attitude to the surroundings. Each and everyone has become what he became against (despite) the circumstances, not by the circumstances. Heart, strength and thanks to all who sail in the boat across the gruesome waves of samsara. [...] It is only in the human body the atma gets the boat that can cross the ocean of ignorance, with the guru as helmsman and bhakti as favourable wind.
Svami Sadananda Dasa