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We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.

Krishna Das

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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Channel Grace Heart Mindset Moments Present Thinking Touch
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
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
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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
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
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
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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
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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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking

We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.

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