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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

Krishna Das

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
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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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
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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Destroy Live Lose Person
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
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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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate

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