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.
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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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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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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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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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