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.
KRISHNA DASHanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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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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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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When 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.
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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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