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Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.

Krishna Das

Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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
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
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
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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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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Different Live Ourselves See World
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
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.
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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence 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
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand

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