Guru Quotes

“There’s no handbook. The handbook is your heart; the confusion is your head.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“So long as you can be talked out of yourself you deserve to be.”
― Alan Watts

“Oh, what a joy it is!
One feet of my Master
On my chest,
Other feet resting,
On my head.
Oh, Pure Bliss!”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“To be the real you is the spiritual path.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“The wisdom mind is not some faraway attainment. You got it when you were born, you have it every second, and it is always trying to get you to listen a little closer.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“Attachment to enjoyment limits your ability to enjoy, and guarantees eventual misery. So when you’re not attached to enjoyment, you enjoy much more.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“Joy is the human experience of the Divine itself.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Only one who has removed his/her affinity from the mind can keep an eye on its every thought. The mind can only be conquered by one who has taken shelter of his Spiritual Guru.”
― Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj

“What I find hilarious is that these people looking for ego death, who want to become so enlightened are usually those with the most enormous egos. The huge egos seeking the egolessness, in order to show off how enlightened they are, all they want is to post on social media or write books about their journey. They actually want to find in it a way to seem selfless while still getting some selfish pleasure out of it. And then they have the guts to lecture you on selflessness!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Many modern gurus encourage us to ‘be ourselves’. Perhaps it has not occurred to them that we can only ever be ourselves – nothing more, nothing less.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“He was born in a middle class family with struggles in life. He had adverse surroundings and many difficulties in his life. Some moments haunted him - he would remember a few things that did not happen in his life as he thought they would, and he would feel a deep pain of past regrets shatter his calmness. One day he realized that he desperately needed someone to whom he could share everything and someone who could guide him in life.

He found me. And I became his Guru.”
― Avijeet Das

“That is why self-attunement is so essential because consciously being in tune with our inner and most Highest Self will provide us with an elevated level of self-awareness. Connecting us to a magnificent amount of wisdom. This allows us to trust our own intuition, instead of grasping at any person's spiritual guidance.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“Without the Guru/Murshid, one might read about God but cannot reach God.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“Like a management consultant is hired to guide people in managing and solving their business problems, a belief system works as a mentor or guru or life coach or consultant to direct people in managing and resolving their life problems.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Guru hanya beri motivasi,
Guru hanya beri ilmu,
Guru hanya beri ilham,
Guru hanya beri tunjuk ajar…
Jaga adab,
Hormati guru, barulah ilmu diberkati.”
― simple-shida

“The one thing that inspires fearless devotion in followers is devotion from their leader.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“If we taste the fruit ahead and then reroute, we will never again be satisfied with anything less than what we reached for with our higher self.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“Guru Paduka connects with Sri Devi's kundalini.”
― Ricardo B Serrano, Akashic Records Reading with Tao Chang: and Messages from my Heart for Healing and Transformation

“In the spiritual or religious field having a living guru
is a very inconvenient thing! A guru who is long gone
is much simpler. He is not there to contradict you or
reprimand you; to correct your understanding. It is
interesting to consider whether Jesus or Mohammed
or Krishna would ratify what their followers have
done in their name?”
― Dr Janki Santoke, How Do You Know What You Know?: Manage Thoughts, Manage Life

“Don't be stuck on the "death" part of the definition of the 8th House in astrology, instead put your focus on the "rebirth" part.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Karma is itself, the agency of balance.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Life is for living, not thinking through.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“You can follow a guide for a while, but never walk for too long, because the goal is not to progress under the leadership of a guide, but to become a guide yourself, determine your own path, and try to become a different guide, possibly a superior one!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Everything has to be transcended; nothing has to be given up.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“I still occasionally feel angry at the pundits who seduced me into believing that enduring enlightenment is attainable. I mean what are the odds? Maybe the Buddha got there, but I have not met anyone who has experienced anything more than satoris - brief openings of enlightened awareness.
Over the decades I have met numerous gurus and spiritual teachers who claimed to reside permanently in illumination. Whenever I was around them long enough, I soon saw evidence of dissociative delusion or egotistical grandiosity.
The grandiose ones were the most common. The flaws of these "Masters" leaked out commonly as less than kind superiority. Frequently, they sexually or financially exploited their followers. Even those who presented a convincing facade of loving gentleness were typical harsh to their closest devotees when no one else war around.”
― Pete Walker, HOMESTEADING in the CALM EYE of the STORM: A Therapist Navigates His Complex PTSD

“One has to imagine a setting in a forest sometime as far back as 2000 BCE or earlier, where a sage, who has spent decades perhaps in the search for truth and wisdom, shares thoughts, most often elliptically, with a group of students eager to begin their own journey in unravelling the mysteries of life. The conversation is not in the form of a formal dialogue, but through parable and suggestion, story and allusion, or statements of deep penetrative insight into what constitutes the transcendent reality underlying our lives and this universe. What is significant is that while obviously having the role of a mentor, the guru is open to questions being asked and instead of delivering a monologue from a pedestal, is willing to have a conversation which is guided as much by what the guru has to say as by what is being asked by the shishya. Significant too is that what the sage says is not in the nature of a command, but more in the format of an insight, inviting discussion and interrogation. Considering the fact that for many Hindus (including Adi Shankaracharya), even though the Upanishads are seen as shruti or revealed texts, the fact that they were dialogic, and not prescriptive, set the tone for the further evolution of Hinduism itself.
Other foundational texts of Hinduism carry forward this dialogic tradition. One of these is the Brahma Sutra by Badarayana written sometime around 450 BCE. In Indian tradition, Badarayana is identified with the legendary Vyasa who compiled the Vedas. The Brahma Sutra is known by many names—Nyaya Prasthana, because it puts the teachings of the Upanishads in a structured order; Vedanta Sutra, since it is a text on the Vedanta; Sariraka Sutra, since it deals with the nature and evolution of the embodied soul; and Uttara Mimamsa Sutra, since it deals with the final section of the Vedas, unlike the Purva Mimamsa which deals with the earlier sections.”
― Pavan K. Varma, The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward

“It is good to light people's paths and guide them, but it is much, much better to teach them to create their own light and walk their own path by their own light, thus completely eliminating their dependence on you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There was a time I looked in the mirror and saw a stranger.

I had walked through the fire of alcohol addiction.
I had sat in the silence of depression.
I had tasted the sharp loneliness that hides behind a smile.

And yet — I did not give up.

We endure pain — and that pain becomes our teacher.

They say a Guru is not one who speaks from books,
but one who has lived what they teach.
Who has stumbled through the dark, and still chooses the path to light.

Today, as a coach, I don’t offer perfection.
I offer presence. I offer truth. I offer the strength that comes from having broken and rebuilt.

If you’re walking through something heavy, I hope this reminds you:
You are not broken. You are becoming.
And your story isn’t over.”
― Avijeet Das