You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
KRISHNA DASPractice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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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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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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