You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
KRISHNA DASI 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.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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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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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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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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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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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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It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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