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.
KRISHNA DASLove 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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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 you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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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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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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