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.
KRISHNA DASYou can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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