The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
KRISHNA DASThe presence of real love in the world inspires me.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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.
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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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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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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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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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