Surya Das > Quotes

“Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”
― Surya Das

“The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.”
― Surya Das

“Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.”
― Surya Das

“before speaking, notice what motivates your words.”
― Surya Das, Awakening The Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

“Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.”
― Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment

“The heart is an organ of perception.”
― Surya Das, Words of Wisdom