You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
KRISHNA DASDon’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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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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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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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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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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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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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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