On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
KRISHNA DASWe 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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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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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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