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.
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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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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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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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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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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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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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Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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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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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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