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

Krishna Das

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
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
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
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
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
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 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
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
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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