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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

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience 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
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
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
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
Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.
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Chant Known Point Yourself
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk

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