When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
KRISHNA DASBliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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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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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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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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Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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