Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
KRISHNA DASOne 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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The 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.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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