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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.

Krishna Das

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 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
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
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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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
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
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking

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