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

Krishna Das

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
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
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
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
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
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
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
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
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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
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
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
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
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

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

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