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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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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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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
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
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
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
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
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
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 ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat

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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