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.
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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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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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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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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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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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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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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