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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.

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
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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Learning Light Ourselves Understand
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
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Act Power Surrender Ultimate
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
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.
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Known Light Reality Yourself
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
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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Different Live Ourselves See World
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
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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Known Reality Spirituality
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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Need Presence Requirement
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
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Deep Emotion Heart Issues
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
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed 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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See

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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