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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.

Krishna Das

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
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
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
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
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
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking 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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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness 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
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
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
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

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