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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

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
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
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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Cleaning Grace Himself Surrender Walk
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
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
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
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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Love Thinking World
We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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Different Live Ourselves See World
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking 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
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
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
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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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength

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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