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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.

Krishna Das

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
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
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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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Fall In Love Love True
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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
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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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate

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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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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