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 DASBliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
More Krishna Das Quotes
-
-
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
KRISHNA DAS -
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
KRISHNA DAS -
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
KRISHNA DAS -
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
KRISHNA DAS -
Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS