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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.

Krishna Das

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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Known Reality Spirituality
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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
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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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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.
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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
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

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