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 DASWhen you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
More Krishna Das Quotes
-
-
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 -
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
KRISHNA DAS -
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
KRISHNA DAS -
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
KRISHNA DAS -
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
KRISHNA DAS -
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
KRISHNA DAS -
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
KRISHNA DAS -
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
KRISHNA DAS -
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS -
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.
KRISHNA DAS