Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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 Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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