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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.

Krishna Das

Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
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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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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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Different Live Ourselves See World
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
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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Need Presence Requirement
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.
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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
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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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
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
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
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
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself

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