Surya Das Quotes About Spirituality

Quotes about: Spirituality

• Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Yoga, Love Is

• Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

  Surya Das

  Compassion, Inability, Spirituality

• Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are. ... We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Quests, Want

  Lama Surya Das (2010). “Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be”, p.22, Random House

• 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 is the spirituality.

  Surya Das

  Heart, Political, Isms

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the beating heart of spirituality, and really, the heart's blood is the mystical experience. Not airy fairy vague mystical experience, but transformative, intimate experience that really touches your heart with love, and not just sex.

  Surya Das

  Sex, Moving, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need today to think about a global spirituality. We need to make it very personal and transformative for one self, and each other, together for those who are interested.

  Surya Das

  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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