Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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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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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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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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