The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
KRISHNA DASThere is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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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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Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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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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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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