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Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.

Krishna Das

I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
KRISHNA DAS

Known Reality Spirituality
Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
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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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
KRISHNA DAS

Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
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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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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Different Live Ourselves See World
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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Channel Grace Heart Mindset Moments Present Thinking Touch
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
KRISHNA DAS

Love See Teacher Yourself

Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.

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