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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

Krishna Das

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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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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Need Presence Requirement
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
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.
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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
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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Aspect Important Motivational People

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