Spiritual Teachers Quotes

• When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are.

  Ken Wilber

  Girl, Spiritual, Teacher

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• There is no other teacher but your own soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Teacher, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.9, New World Library

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• If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Common Sense

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• I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Teacher, Meditation

  "A Way Out of Suffering: An Interview With Sharon Salzberg". "Omega Institute" Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2012.

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• The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Spiritual, Teacher

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• How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Teacher, Heart

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.217, Aum Publications

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• A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Spiritual, Teacher, And Love

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• If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Prayer

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• If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Teacher

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Teacher, Heart

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.26, A&C Black

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• I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Party

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• He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Teacher, Messages

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Character

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• ... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.

  Frances Wright

  Spiritual, Teacher, Book

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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• Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

  Source: home.online.nl

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• Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

  Source: home.online.nl

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• It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Term

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• "Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only because they realize respect will help the student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Real

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• We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Teacher

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