You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
KRISHNA DASThis 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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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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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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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 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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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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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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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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