Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
KRISHNA DAS
KRISHNA DAS
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Krishna DasKrishna Das It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
Krishna DasKrishna Das I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
Krishna DasKrishna Das When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
Krishna DasKrishna Das 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.
Krishna DasKrishna Das 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.
Krishna DasKrishna Das Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
Krishna DasKrishna Das Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
Krishna DasKrishna Das Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
Krishna DasKrishna Das 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.
Krishna DasKrishna Das I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
Krishna DasKrishna Das Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
Krishna DasKrishna Das We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
Krishna DasKrishna Das Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
Krishna DasKrishna Das To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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