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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

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
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
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
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
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
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
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
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Destroy Live Lose Person
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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Inspirational Love Presence Reality
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
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
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Known Reality Spirituality
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
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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Chant Known Point 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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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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