We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
KRISHNA DASLet’s just chant and be good people, alright?
More Krishna Das Quotes
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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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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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
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Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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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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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have 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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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