Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
KRISHNA DASThe 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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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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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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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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There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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