I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
KRISHNA DASI mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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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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The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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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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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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