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.
KRISHNA DASYou can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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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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You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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