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.
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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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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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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