I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
KRISHNA DASSurrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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.
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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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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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Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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