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.
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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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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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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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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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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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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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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