When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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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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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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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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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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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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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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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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