Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
KRISHNA DASIf 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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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I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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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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