Quote

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

Krishna Das

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Krishna Das
Thoughts
Made
Think
Thinking
Boxes

More quotes by Krishna Das

Image
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
Krishna Das
Image
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.
Krishna Das
Image
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.
Krishna Das
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
Image
The presence of real love in the world inspires me.
Krishna Das
Image
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
Krishna Das
Image
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
Krishna Das
Image
I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.
Krishna Das
Image
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.
Krishna Das
Image
Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
Krishna Das
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 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.
Krishna Das
Image
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.
Krishna Das
Image
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.
Krishna Das
Image
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.
Krishna Das
Image
The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
Krishna Das
Image
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.
Krishna Das
Image
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
Krishna Das
Image
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.
Krishna Das
Image
Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.
Krishna Das
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