Skip to content

Becoming Quote by Surya Das

“I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially…” quote by Surya Das — Download Open image

“I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Becoming Campus Contradiction Kent My friends National guard Realizing Shots States Term

More by 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 want to…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Image

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

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

Image

Explore all 56 Surya Das quotes

More Becoming quotes

Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

Image

If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract…

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Image

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

Image

It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United…

Image

The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one…

Image

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try…

Image

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

Olivier Theyskens

Image

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Simone de Beauvoir

Image

The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of…

Image

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play…

Image

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

Christopher Wood

Image

We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

Terence McKenna

Image

Browse all 4,715 Becoming quotes