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

Krishna Das

You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga 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
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
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
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
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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Fall In Love Love True
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves

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

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