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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

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
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
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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
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
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
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
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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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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Known Reality Spirituality
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
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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Channel Grace Heart Mindset Moments Present Thinking Touch
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
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
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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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove

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