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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Aspect

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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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 Mindset
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
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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.

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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Devotion
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.

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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 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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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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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 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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See
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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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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Subject Way
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

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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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Color See
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Manipulate
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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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Torture
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.

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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Easy Hard
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!

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We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Exploration Instant Mindset
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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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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Cleaning Grace

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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