Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru. — Krishna Das
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. — Guru Nanak
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you. — Sathya Sai Baba
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue. — Guru Gobind Singh
The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Look within,
There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.
You are always Free.
There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching. — H. W. L. Poonja
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. — Bruce Lee
The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you. — Bell Hooks
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge. — Cheryl Richardson
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. — Chanakya
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. — Paulo Coelho
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible. — Swami Vivekananda
The best teacher in life is experience. — LeBron James
When the student is ready the teacher will appear. — Lao Tzu
Short Guru Quotes
Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering. — Guru Gobind Singh
I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell. — Sayings
One does not become a guru by accident. — James Fenton
I am the rich man's guru. — Osho
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden. — Van Morrison
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there. — Susan Powter
When you know how to listen everyone is the guru — Ram Dass
We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient. — Jamie Catto
Guru Image Quotes
Love Guru Quotes
The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru's body and to serve them accordingly. — Mata Amritanandamayi
My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion. — Radhanath Swami
With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love. — Cynthia Heimel
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love. — Ram Dass
If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego. — Jaggi Vasudev
To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it. — George Harrison
A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch. — Jaggi Vasudev
A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love. — Frederick Lenz
When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually. — Krishna Das
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love. — Krishna Das
Spiritual Guru Quotes
Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout
the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru's teachings, the
darkness of spiritual ignorance is dispelled. The heart lotus flower
blooms forth and eternal peace is obtained, as one's light merges
into the Supreme Light. — Guru Amar Das
It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall. — Bhakti Tirtha Swami
That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection. — Chanakya
Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself. — Ramakrishna
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime. — Edward Abbey
In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me. — Irvine Welsh
Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Blessings Of Guru Quotes
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord. — Guru Nanak
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain. — Guru Nanak
Blessed, blessed is that Sikh of the Guru, who goes and falls at the Feet of the True Guru. Blessed, blessed is that Sikh of the Guru, who with his mouth, utters the Name of the Lord. — Guru Gobind Singh
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord. — Guru Gobind Singh
Blessed, blessed is the Knower of the Lord, my True Guru, He has taught me to look upon friend and foe alike. — Guru Gobind Singh
Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord. — Guru Gobind Singh
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. — Joko Beck
It follows from this that time management broadly defined should be everyone’s chief concern. Arguably time management is all life is, yet the modern discipline known as time management - like its hipper cousin, productivity - is a depressingly, narrow minded affair focused on how to crank through as many work tasks as possible, or on devising the perfect morning routine, or in cooking all your dinners for the week in one big batch on Sundays. These things matter to some extent, no doubt, but they’re hardly all that matters. The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru, who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing, might be to experience more of that wonder. — Oliver Burkeman
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now. — Guru Nanak
The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder. — Oliver Burkeman
Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru's touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples. Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present. — Adyashanti
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it. — Stanislav Grof
Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai. — Dhirubhai Ambani
The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached. — Bhagat Singh
We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength. — Dalai Lama
If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God. — Ali Akbar Khan
A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk. — U.G. Krishnamurti
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. — Christopher Hitchens
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism — Gad Saad
I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances?" I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus. — Khushwant Singh
The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is. — Anandmurti Gurumaa
Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline. — Mata Amritanandamayi
If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something that the globalisation gurus seem altogether to have foregone), and a challenge (how negotiate difference, how to address inequality, and so forth). — Doreen Massey
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. — Shimon Peres
Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords. — Neem Karoli Baba
Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do. — Johannes Grenzfurthner
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth. — Ramana Maharshi
... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have. — C. Wagner
After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay. — Norm MacDonald
I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover. — Daniel Quinn
When I was born, God existed. But I never knew Him. I just never knew Him until Guru Maharaj Ji came into my life, till Guru Maharaj Ji came in my way, and showed me and revealed me that secret. And the day he did that, there it was, I knew God. — Prem Rawat
Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right. — Marian Keyes
All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.' — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure. — Mata Amritanandamayi
One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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