I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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.
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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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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.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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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.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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