We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
KRISHNA DASChanting 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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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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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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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 chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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