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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.

Krishna Das

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
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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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
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.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
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
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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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Body Heart Known Mindset Myself Start
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
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

Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.

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