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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.

Krishna Das

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
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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Force Grace Live Obstacle Ourselves Remove
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.
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Channel Grace Heart Mindset Moments Present Thinking Touch
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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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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Horrible Missing Myself
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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
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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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.
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Body Heart Known Mindset Myself Start
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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

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