We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
KRISHNA DASI 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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 repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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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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I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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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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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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