Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
KRISHNA DASWhen 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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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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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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