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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.

Krishna Das

You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Fall In Love Love True
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
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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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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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Believe Exploration Instant Mindset Ourselves Thinking
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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
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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Known Reality Spirituality
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
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
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself

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