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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

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
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
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
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
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
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
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
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
If 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.
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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself

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