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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.

Krishna Das

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way 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
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
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
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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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Need Presence Requirement
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
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
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
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing

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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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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