Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
KRISHNA DASWhen you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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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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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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Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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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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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 an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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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.
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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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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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.
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