You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
KRISHNA DASTo love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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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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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
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