Latest Krishna Das Quotes from Interviews

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• I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.

  Krishna Das

  Miserable, Ass

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.

  Krishna Das

  Heart, My Heart

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• 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

  Heart, Dark, Cells

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• Chanting is the main thing in my life.

  Krishna Das

  Chanting

• If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.

  Krishna Das

  Hurt, Emotional, Compassion

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

  Krishna Das

  College, Compassion, College Education

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• 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.

  Krishna Das

  Light, Goes On, Ifs

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

  Krishna Das

  Hurt, Being Hurt, Ifs

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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

  Krishna Das

  Understanding, World, Intuitive

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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

  Krishna Das

  Real, Knows

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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

  Krishna Das

  Color, Would Be, Imagine

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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

  Krishna Das

  Falling In Love, Fall, Feels

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the sense that you can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. The true guru is someone who's transcended all that. And we don't know anything about that.

  Krishna Das

  Talking, Long, Ego

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, June 1, 2016.

• 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

  Heart, People, Grace

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• 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.

  Krishna Das

  Degrees, Different, World

• 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.

  Krishna Das

  Motivation, People, Important

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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

  Krishna Das

  Thinking, World, This World

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Krishna Das

  Mean, Heart, Long

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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

  Krishna Das

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Krishna Das

  Spiritual, Real, Practice

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

• The presence of real love in the world inspires me.

  Krishna Das

  Real, Real Love, Inspire

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

  Krishna Das

  Two, Needs, Tango

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

  Krishna Das

  People, Germany, Littles

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• I'm reconnecting, I'm deepening, I'm opening, I'm releasing negativity and negative thoughts and all the limitations I carry around with me - again and again and again and again and again and again. And again! And that's the only thing that keeps me alive.

  Krishna Das

  Negativity, Negative, Alive

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

• Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

  Krishna Das

  Hurt, Real, Emotional

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.