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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

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
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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
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
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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
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
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love

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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