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

Krishna Das

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.
KRISHNA DAS

Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
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
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
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
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
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
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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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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
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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
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
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
I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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Known Reality Spirituality
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
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
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
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
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality

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