Surya Das

I think that's what's important, to see how we ourselves can become all that we are and can be. Everybody says they…

— Surya Das

I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days…

— Surya Das

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

But you know the difference between sex and love. And sex can be part of love, but what moves your heart, what's…

— Surya Das

But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse,…

— Surya Das

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…

— Surya Das

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

Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to…

— Surya Das

Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and…

— Surya Das

Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji…

— Surya Das

When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly;…

— Surya Das

I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background…

— Surya Das

You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless.…

— Surya Das

If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions…

— Surya Das

People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be…

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Also not being afraid to stand up for what you believe in while taking into account that you could very well be…

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I think it's very important to really find the wheat amidst the chafe and not give into superficialities, to not get caught…

— Surya Das

We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.

— Surya Das

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

— Surya Das

However, we need to participate and manage skillfully, helpfully, and harmoniously, for a better world, family and society to be possible. So…

— Surya Das

Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways.…

— Surya Das

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say…

— Surya Das

Mother Teresa- cream. Exemplars, exemplary models we can learn from and become more like, but we don't have to imitate them. We…

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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

We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need…

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