Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that’s why I sing. Whether it’s at the Grammys, whether it’s in the bathroom, whether it’s in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru’s grace, my head stays in that place.
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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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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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