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

Krishna Das

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.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
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
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
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 the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
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
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
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
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
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling

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

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