Chanting is the main thing in my life.
KRISHNA DASWe all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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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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We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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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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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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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