black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Krishna Das

It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
KRISHNA DAS

Myself Need Sing
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
KRISHNA DAS

Freedom Love
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 DAS

Chant Known Point Yourself
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
KRISHNA DAS

Teacher Wait Yourself
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
KRISHNA DAS

Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
KRISHNA DAS

Chant Life
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
KRISHNA DAS

Catch Devotion People
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
KRISHNA DAS

Big Emotion Feeling
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.
KRISHNA DAS

Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
KRISHNA DAS

Compassionate Education
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
KRISHNA DAS

Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
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.
KRISHNA DAS

Fall In Love Love True
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
KRISHNA DAS

Known Light Reality Yourself
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.
KRISHNA DAS

Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
KRISHNA DAS

Act Power Surrender Ultimate
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
KRISHNA DAS

Box Thinking Yourself

You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Krishna Das Quotes