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 DASYou can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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 in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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