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.
KRISHNA DASWe 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!
More Krishna Das Quotes
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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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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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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.
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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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Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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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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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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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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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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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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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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