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 More Quotes by Krishna Das More Quotes From Krishna Das 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 emotional real hurt 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 compassion sitting kindness 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 selfish views talking 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. Krishna Das inexplicable legs feet There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience. Krishna Das color 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 guru long All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody. Krishna Das knows reality way Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it. Krishna Das disease devotion people
