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The ultimate act of power is surrender.

Krishna Das

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
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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Destroy Live Lose Person
I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
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
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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Limitation Love Possible Service Strength
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
Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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Chant Life
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
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
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
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
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
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Compassionate Education
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
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
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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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View
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

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