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!
KRISHNA DASWe 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Love 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.
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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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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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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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