Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
KRISHNA DASSurrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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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 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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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