You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
KRISHNA DASI chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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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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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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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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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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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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