This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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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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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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