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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.

Krishna Das

You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking 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
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
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 never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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 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
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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Destroy Live Lose Person
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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
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
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate

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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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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