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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

I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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
When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
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
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
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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 chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
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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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
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
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
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 ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
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
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
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
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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

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