Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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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The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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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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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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Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Chanting is the main thing in my life.
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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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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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Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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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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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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Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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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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I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
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To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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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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I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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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 chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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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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Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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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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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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