You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
KRISHNA DASUnlimited 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.
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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 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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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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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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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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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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