Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
KRISHNA DASBhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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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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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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Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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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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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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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 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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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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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