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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.

Krishna Das

Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Fall In Love Love True
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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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Need Presence Requirement
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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Channel Grace Heart Mindset Moments Present Thinking Touch
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
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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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
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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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
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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Body Heart Known Mindset Myself Start
I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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Known Reality Spirituality

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