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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.

Krishna Das

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
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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
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
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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
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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
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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Need Presence Requirement
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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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View

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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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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