Accepting Quote 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…

— Surya Das

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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