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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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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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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 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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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