Krishna Das
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“The practice of the Name turns us in the direction of the light. The practice of the Name removes the dust from our eyes so that we can see the world as it really is: lit up by the light of the guru.”
― Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
― Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
“To me it is not about trying to achieve ecstatic states. It is about love. I want to be there all the time. Ecstasy comes and goes. I want to get to the place where there’s only Sitaram. I don’t want to be thinking about love, I want to be in love and eventually become love. In”
― Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
― Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
“These spiritual window-shoppers, who idly ask, “How much is that?” Oh, I’m just looking. They handle a hundred items and put them down, shadows with no capital. What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping. But these walk into a shop, and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment, in that shop. Where did you go? “Nowhere.” What did you have to eat? “Nothing much.” Even if you don’t know what you want, buy something, to be part of the exchanging flow. Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi26 Nowadays”
― Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
― Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
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