Top 35 Krishna Das Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The ultimate act of power is surrender.”

— Krishna Das

2. “Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.”

— Krishna Das

3. “Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.”

— Krishna Das

4. “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

5. “Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?”

— Krishna Das

6. “Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.”

— Krishna Das

7. “Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.”

— Krishna Das

8. “Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.”

— Krishna Das

9. “To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.”

— Krishna Das

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

— Krishna Das

11. “Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.”

— Krishna Das

12. “Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.”

— Krishna Das

13. “When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy – this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.”

— Krishna Das

14. “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

15. “The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.”

— Krishna Das

16. “Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.”

— Krishna Das

17. “Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.”

— Krishna Das

18. “Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.”

— Krishna Das

19. “On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.”

— Krishna Das

20. “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

21. “We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!”

— Krishna Das

22. “Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.”

— Krishna Das

23. “You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.”

— Krishna Das

24. “You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.”

— Krishna Das

25. “Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.”

— Krishna Das

26. “Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.”

— Krishna Das

27. “As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!”

— Krishna Das

28. “All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.”

— Krishna Das

29. “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

30. “The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.”

— Krishna Das

31. “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

32. “Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.”

— Krishna Das

33. “It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.”

— Krishna Das

34. “The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.”

— Krishna Das

35. “There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.”

— Krishna Das

36. “I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.”

— Krishna Das

37. “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

38. “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

39. “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.”

— Krishna Das