Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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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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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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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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Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I 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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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