Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
KRISHNA DAS
KRISHNA DAS
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Krishna DasKrishna Das 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.
Krishna DasKrishna Das As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
Krishna DasKrishna Das 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.
Krishna DasKrishna Das You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
Krishna DasKrishna Das I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
Krishna DasKrishna Das The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
Krishna DasKrishna Das You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
Krishna DasKrishna Das I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
Krishna DasKrishna Das Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
Krishna DasKrishna Das You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
Krishna DasKrishna Das 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.
Krishna DasKrishna Das All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
Krishna DasKrishna Das You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
Krishna DasKrishna Das 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 DasKrishna Das I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
William GoldingWilliam Golding 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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Krishna DasKrishna Das Chanting is the main thing in my life.
Krishna DasKrishna Das The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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