You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.
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.
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.
Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it... if we just take a look at it.