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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

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
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
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
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
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
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Believe Exploration Instant Mindset Ourselves Thinking
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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Live Ourselves Subject Way
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
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
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
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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Fall In Love Love True
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love

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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