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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 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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself
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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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.
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Disturb Happiness Holy Name Repeat
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
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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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Love Thinking World
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
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
There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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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Body Compassion Experience Hurt Oneself Reality Separate
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
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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Aspect Important Motivational People
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start

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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