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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.

Krishna Das

Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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 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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Body Heart Known Mindset Myself Start
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
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
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
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
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling 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
Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
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
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material

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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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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