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

Krishna Das

It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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
Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
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Dedication Devotion Finding Heart Mindset Way
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Believe Exploration Instant Mindset Ourselves Thinking
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 chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
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 mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
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
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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
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
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
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself

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