You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
KRISHNA DASThe ultimate act of power is surrender.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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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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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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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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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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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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Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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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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I chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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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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On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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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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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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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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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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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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