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.
KRISHNA DASLet’s just chant and be good people, alright?
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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