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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.

Krishna Das

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
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
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
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
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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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
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
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
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
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
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

Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.

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