Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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