Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
KRISHNA DASWe are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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