Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves. — Krishna Das Bliss Copy Share Image
There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience. — Krishna Das Color Copy Share Image
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji,… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
“The practice of the Name turns us in the direction of the light. The practice of the Name removes the dust from… — Krishna Das Guru Copy Share Image
When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Don't give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside. — Krishna Das Funny Copy Share Image
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go. — Krishna Das Desire Copy Share Image
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… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them. — Krishna Das Enlightened Copy Share Image
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do. — Krishna Das Funny Copy Share Image
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to… — Krishna Das Heart Copy Share Image
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. — Krishna Das Ego Copy Share Image
Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look… — Krishna Das Grace Copy Share Image
I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that's why… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a… — Krishna Das Being hurt Copy Share Image
