Krishna Das Quotes

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.

Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.

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.

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!

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.

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

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.

Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.

Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.

Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.

The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.

The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.

Let's just chant and be good people, alright?

On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

The ultimate act of power is surrender.

Chanting is the main thing in my life.

It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.

Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.

It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.

You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.

When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.

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.

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.

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.

Don't give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.

The presence of real love in the world inspires me.

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.

Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.

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.

There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

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.

I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

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.

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.

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.