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.
KRISHNA DASWhen you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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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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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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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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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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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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