When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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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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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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 just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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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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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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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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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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