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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.

Krishna Das

I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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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Need Presence Requirement
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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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Love Thinking World
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
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
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
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
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
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 miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
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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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself

Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.

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