Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
KRISHNA DASChanting is the main thing in my life.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
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The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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