I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
KRISHNA DASOn the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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