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Krishna Das

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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
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
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
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
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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Live Ourselves Subject Way
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
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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
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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Different Live Ourselves See World
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 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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
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
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person

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