Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man;… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Spiritual joy is devotion, it's like a virus you know? It's a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It's infectious. Ram Dass was… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it. — Surya Das Copy Share Image
We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
However, we need to participate and manage skillfully, helpfully, and harmoniously, for a better world, family and society to be possible. So… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Sex, creativity, music, art, family, love, beauty, and creative imagination are all part of the spiritual path in the tantric traditions. So… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace in this… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways.… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way. — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I think that's what's important, to see how we ourselves can become all that we are and can be. Everybody says they want to… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
But you know the difference between sex and love. And sex can be part of love, but what moves your heart, what's really intimate,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse, so it's… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted in the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Spiritual joy is devotion, it's like a virus you know? It's a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It's infectious. Ram Dass was like a… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see. — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji was the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
