The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
KRISHNA DASBhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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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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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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 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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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