Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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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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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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