Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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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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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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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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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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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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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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