Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
KRISHNA DASDevotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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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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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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