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Krishna Das

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
This 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.
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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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Need Presence Requirement
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
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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Fall In Love Love True
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
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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Love Thinking World
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself

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