I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
KRISHNA DASThe Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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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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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’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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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 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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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