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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.

Krishna Das

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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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Different Live Ourselves See World
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
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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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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Need Presence Requirement
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
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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Destroy Live Lose Person
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate

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