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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

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
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
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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
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
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
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
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 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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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try

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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