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.
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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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.
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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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