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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

Krishna Das

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
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
Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
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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Destroy Live Lose Person
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
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
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
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
You 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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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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 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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
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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Different Live Ourselves See World

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

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