Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
KRISHNA DASIf 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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.
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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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