Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
KRISHNA DASChanting 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.
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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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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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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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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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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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