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.
KRISHNA DASThere is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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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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We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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