Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
KRISHNA DASEven if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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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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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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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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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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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