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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.

Krishna Das

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 ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
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 presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
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
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
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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
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
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
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

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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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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