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.
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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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