Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
KRISHNA DASLet’s just chant and be good people, alright?
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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 chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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 of real love in the world inspires me.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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