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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.

Krishna Das

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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself

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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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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