It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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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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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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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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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