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.
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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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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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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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.
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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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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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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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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