Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
KRISHNA DASThere is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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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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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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