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

Krishna Das

Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
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
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking 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
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
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
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
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
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
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

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