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.
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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I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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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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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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It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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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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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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 is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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