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.
KRISHNA DASI knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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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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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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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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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 Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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