"If we accept and internalize the fact of……" — Surya Das
"If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be."
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25 Quotes by Surya Das
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We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.
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The heart is an organ of perception.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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