Guru Quotes - Page 7

• When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Storm, Captains, Ships

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2014

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Children, Humility, Discipline

  23 Copy quote

• 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

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Men, Enemy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1001, Manonmani Publishers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Knowing, Storm

  8 Copy quote

• I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

  Greg Cipes

  World, Grew Up, Mickey

  "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru
  It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

  Ernest Becker

  Animal, Men, Leader

  8 Copy quote

• Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Church, Radio

  4 Copy quote

• Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, India, Development

  4 Copy quote

• I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Running, Teacher, Thinking

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2006.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Buddhist

  5 Copy quote

• When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

  Joseph Campbell

  Two, India, Mets

  10 Copy quote

• Women come to me and would never tell a male guru the things that they tell me. to me and would never besiege the male guru with some of the things that I hear. And that is because mother is mother and that is the phenomenal thing, it's the most irreplaceable thing in the world because whether we're an earthly mother or a spiritual mother, a divine mother, and everyone is divine by the way, we all have the power of divinity, the power of full consciousness, whether we are awakened to the potential of it all is a different matter.

  Maya Tiwari

  Mother, Spiritual, Different

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've never been uncomfortable with the host of modern gurus, and gurus of different motivations I should say, or different intentions. You know, we are moving into a time where it's extremely commercial, but then I keep reminding those that I speak to that consciousness has no products, it really has no commerciality.

  Maya Tiwari

  Motivation, Moving, Different

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am the rich man's guru.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Rich, Rich Man

  "The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press". Book by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 1986.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I've learned from my gurus is that when you hear music, you hear a person, or you hear people, and you hear everything about them in those moments. They reveal themselves in ways that cannot be revealed any other way, and it contains historical truths because of that. To me, that is the most important thing. It shouldn't be a footnote, or the last chapter. It should be the complete thesis about a book on listening.

  Vijay Iyer

  Book, People, Historical

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Christian, Buddhist, Pagan

  4 Copy quote

• When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the sense that you can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego. The true guru is someone who's transcended all that. And we don't know anything about that.

  Krishna Das

  Talking, Long, Ego

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, June 1, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

  David Suchet

  Growing Up, Meditation, Typical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.

  KRS-One

  Struggle, Successful, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Prayer, Blessing, Essence

  41 Copy quote

• I think in college they give you a chance to really mature, form yourself and build relationships. I think that’s what a team is all about, and when you build relationships, it shows on the court and that brings out success. I love the whole attitude of staying in college to take advantage of a free education. I just felt like Kentucky wasn’t a fit for me. The whole attitude and approach of the one-and-dones, that’s good for them, that’s their decision. But I think [Duke] Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] is a guru of basketball. I want to learn from one of the best.

  Jabari Parker

  Basketball, Attitude, Team

  6 Copy quote

• It is impossible for you to judge a person about his divinity unless and until the Kundalini reaches at least this part, which is the limbic area. You cannot make out whether a person is real or not, whether a guru is real or not. Because divinity cannot be perceived through your brain, unless and until this light of your Spirit shines into it.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Real

  4 Copy quote

• We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.

  Richard Bach

  Teacher, Thinking, People

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Zero, Teaching, Night

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3204, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source