Guru Quotes - Page 2

• No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

  Van Morrison

  Education, Teacher, Father

  Song: In the Garden, Album: No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

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• When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have people recognize themselves and their own street and their own house in it, well then you're aiming for the high country and it's a much bigger gamble. You can interview all the marketing gurus and the people in charge of, you know, the people you gotta fight with in order to get your seats here, and they all talk about release dates and counterprogramming. At the end of the day, it's gotta be a good movie.

  Tom Hanks

  Country, Fighting, Release Date

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Real, Opportunity

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• The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if it places them comfortably among "the good guys," - assumptions that are likely to be drawn as much from folk-Christianity, surrounding political culture, popular pulp-books about the "End Times," or their favourite guru writer or therapist, than from sober and comprehensive reading of the Bible as a whole. Prophets and preachers have the unwelcome task of pricking that bubble with the sharpness of actual texts and teachings of the Bible itself.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Christian, Teaching, Reading

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Speak, Genuine

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• I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Mets, Amplifiers

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• 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

  Nike, People, Marketing

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• Who's your soul's mate? Consciousness. Soul is your conscious mate. Guru keeps you conscious.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Soul

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• 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

  Personality, Growth, Too Much

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, House, Spurs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3044, Manonmani Publishers

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• My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

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  Ram Dass

  God, Suffering, Found

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• My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

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  Ram Dass

  Imagination, My Imagination

  "Ram Dass, Spiritual Teacher, Talks Soul, Spirit And Accepting Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2013.

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• 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

  Religious, Views, Secret

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• "Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Leadership, Self, Games

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• In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Misery

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• 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

  Real, Tolerance, Enemy

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• The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

  Alan Watts

  Roles, Shows, Persons

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• Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Grace

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• Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Should, Every Man

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.

  Frederick Lenz

  Responsibility, Buddhism, People

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• 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

  Spiritual, Fall, Offensive

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• 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

  Believe, Fall, Survival

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• So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Track, Realization

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• All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

  Milarepa

  Religious, Buddhist, Knowing

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• The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

  Edward Abbey

  Knowledge, Earth, Pay

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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