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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

Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.
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Desire Liberty Material
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
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Human Hurt Myself Separate
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
Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?
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Chant Goodness People
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 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
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
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 chant to save my miserable ass. That’s what I do.
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Chant Misery Myself Save
It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
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Myself Need Sing
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
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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Chant Known Point Yourself
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
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
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
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
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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Desire Fulfill Happiness Let Go
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
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Catch Devotion People
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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Head Heart Open People Place Sing
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
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
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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Belief Born Family Myself People Torture
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
Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
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Teacher Wait Yourself

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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