Krishna Das
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Heart
Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.Collection: Waiting
We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.Collection: Hurt
Grace surrounds us and holds us like the sky holds everything in it … and as soon as I find a way to let go of my story, I keep seeing over and over again that grace is always here and it includes the forgetting and the remembering. The practice is the opening of the hand to catch the raindrops, which are always falling. If you don't open your hand, you get wet, but you don't get much to drink.Collection: Letting Go
Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.Collection: Heart
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.Collection: Thinking
If we know anything about a path at all, it's only because of the Great ones that have gone before us. Out of their love and kindness, they have left some footprints for us to follow. So, in the same way that they wish for us, we wish that all beings everywhere, including ourselves, be safe, be happy, have good health, and enough to eat. And may we all live at ease of heart with whatever comes to us in life.Collection: Kindness
There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Inner Strength
We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces.Collection: Letting Go
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!Collection: Crazy
The ultimate act of power is surrender.Collection: Surrender
Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.Collection: Grace
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.Collection: Mean
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.Collection: Heart
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.Collection: Practice
Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it... if we just take a look at it.Collection: Letting Go
I'm reconnecting, I'm deepening, I'm opening, I'm releasing negativity and negative thoughts and all the limitations I carry around with me - again and again and again and again and again and again. And again! And that's the only thing that keeps me alive.Collection: Negativity
Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.Collection: Grace
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.Collection: Heart
Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.Collection: Falling In Love
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.Collection: Real
If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.Collection: Hurt
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.Collection: Hurt
When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.Collection: Kindness
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.Collection: People
It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.Collection: Understanding
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.Collection: Guru
I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.Collection: Miserable
There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.Collection: Color
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.Collection: Long
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Forgiving
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Heart
Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.Collection: College
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.Collection: Missing
All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Feet
When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.Collection: Selfish
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.Collection: People
Let's just chant and be good people, alright?Collection: People
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.Collection: Heart
Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.Collection: Powerful
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.Collection: Path
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.Collection: Bigs
I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.Collection: Real
Chanting is the main thing in my life.Collection: Chanting