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.
KRISHNA DASUntil you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
More Krishna Das Quotes
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It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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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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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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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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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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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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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The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
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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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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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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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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
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