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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

Krishna Das

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
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
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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Need Presence Requirement
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
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
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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Destroy Live Lose Person
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
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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
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
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

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