Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
KRISHNA DASI 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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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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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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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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