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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.

Krishna Das

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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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
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
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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 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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Chant Known Point Yourself
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
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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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
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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Need Presence Requirement
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself

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