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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.

Krishna Das

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
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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
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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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
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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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
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

It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.

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