You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
KRISHNA DASThe ultimate act of power is surrender.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
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Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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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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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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