There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
KRISHNA DASYou cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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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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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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