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I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.

Krishna Das

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
The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff – guilt, anger – this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
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Angry Guilty Heart Mirror Ourselves
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
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
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
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
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
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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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
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
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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

I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.

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I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.

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