It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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