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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More Krishna Das Quotes
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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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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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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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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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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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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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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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