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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.

Krishna Das

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 knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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Body Heart Known Mindset Myself Start
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
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
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
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
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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Channel Grace Heart Mindset Moments Present Thinking Touch
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
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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Destroy Live Lose Person

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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