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

Krishna Das

When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
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
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
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
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
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
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
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
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
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
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 heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
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

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