The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
KRISHNA DASI chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.
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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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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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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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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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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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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