Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
KRISHNA DASTo love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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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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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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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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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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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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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The 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.
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