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I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.

Krishna Das

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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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
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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Channel Grace Heart Mindset Moments Present Thinking Touch
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
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
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
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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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Body Heart Known Mindset Myself Start
The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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Need Presence Requirement
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself

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