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

Krishna Das

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Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
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As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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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.
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