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

Krishna Das

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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Body Heart Known Mindset Myself Start
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait 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
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
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
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
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
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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Destroy Live Lose Person

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