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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Krishna Das

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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Fall In Love Love True
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
I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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Known Reality Spirituality
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
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
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
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
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
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
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
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
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Love Thinking World

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