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 DASI chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
KRISHNA DASOn the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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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.
KRISHNA DASYou 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.
KRISHNA DASWhen you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
KRISHNA DASBliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
KRISHNA DASCompassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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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.
KRISHNA DASWhen 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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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
KRISHNA DASUntil you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
KRISHNA DASDon’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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.
KRISHNA DASWe 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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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.
KRISHNA DASOne 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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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.
KRISHNA DASLove 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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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.
KRISHNA DASIf 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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