You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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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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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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