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.
KRISHNA DASAll we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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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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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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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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