Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
KRISHNA DASLove 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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We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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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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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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Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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