All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
KRISHNA DASThe heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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