You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
KRISHNA DASThe presence of real love in the world inspires me.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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 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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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