All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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.
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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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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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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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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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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We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
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The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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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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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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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.
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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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