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

Krishna Das

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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
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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Fall In Love Love True
We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
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Aspect Important Motivational People
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
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 within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way

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

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