“However, we need to participate and manage skillfully, helpfully, and harmoniously, for a better world, family and society to be possible. So everybody's spiritual by nature I believe, not that they necessarily have to be religious. Everybody wants, or cares about, and has values even if they don't talk about them all the time explicitly, like some noisy preachers do with their foghorn voices and dogmatic views.” IfsWorldWantNeedsBelieveCareSpiritualValuesI BelieveVoiceReligiousViewsManagePreacherNoisyDogmatic Author:Surya Das
“Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There's so much difference but there's so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we're all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.” WorldWayWantChildrenDifferentProblemSpiritualValuesDifferencesSolutionsAround The WorldSupposed To BeMatesSpiritual LifeHomelessRefugeeSimilarity Author: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 change, but it's not that simple, it's not that easy. Who's ready to change and give up? Who's ready to get out of their rut and leave it behind, not just pour honey or syrup over their heads and over the rut? Who's ready to change and give up that rut, who's ready willing and able?” ThinkingWantGivingImportantAbleEasySimpleBehindsWillingReadyGiving UpHoneyWhat's ImportantRutsSyrup Author:Surya Das
“So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.” WorldWantImportantAbleActionWillingReadyIntention Author: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.” IfsWantLongFactsDealsAcceptingForeverEssentialsDefinitionsMortalityPretendingProcrastinationProcrastinatingStop ProcrastinationEssential Questions Author:Surya Das
“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.” WayWantSpiritualSpiritSpiritualityStepsSeekingWho We AreQuestsSeekersFind MeEvery Step Book:Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be Source: Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be
“Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see.” WantNeedsEyeAspireHere And Now Book:Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World Source: Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
