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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

Krishna Das

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
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
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
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
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
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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Love Thinking World
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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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.
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Chant Known Point 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
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
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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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Believe Exploration Instant Mindset Ourselves Thinking
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
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

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