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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

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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
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
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
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
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
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 in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
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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Different Live Ourselves See World
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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
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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Need Presence Requirement
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
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

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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