You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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