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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.

Krishna Das

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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Love Thinking World
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
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
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher 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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
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
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
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
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 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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Known Reality Spirituality
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
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Believe Exploration Instant Mindset Ourselves Thinking
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 heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
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
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself

The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.

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