The ultimate act of power is surrender.
KRISHNA DASThe only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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