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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.

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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
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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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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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Different Live Ourselves See World
There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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Love Thinking World
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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
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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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
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
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
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love

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