Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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