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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

Krishna Das

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
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.
KRISHNA DAS

Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
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
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Fall In Love Love True
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues

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