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.
KRISHNA DASThe 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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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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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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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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