You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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