Top 100 Quotes About A Guru
#1. I was kidding. Even I'm not that promiscuous. You guru people have no sense of humor."
"I'm not a guru people, and I happen to have a very well developed sense of humor. Why else would I still be talking to you?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#2. I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#5. I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
Charles Bukowski
#7. Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.
- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian
Deborah Moggach
#8. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
Jerry Wexler
#9. 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.
Dalai Lama XIV
#11. I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam - you're a guru, ready for your groupies.
Edward Vilga
#12. 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
#13. I do Pilates and yoga to stay in front of the curve. I feel like it's helping me. Does it work for everybody? I don't know. I'm not a guru on how to be in the best condition. Let me sit here and tell you that. But it works for me.
LeBron James
#15. When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple
Guruji Naushir
#16. I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
M.I.A.
#17. The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
Michael Douglas
#18. Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.
Krishna Das
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
Krishna Das
#24. A guru is a person who can radiate lights of wisdom to enlighten the path of life for others.
Debasish Mridha
#25. I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
Ramana Maharshi
#26. A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna.
Lokanatha Swami
#27. I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.
Frederick Lenz
#28. A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#29. One more thing: Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.
Austin Kleon
#30. Holy name alone is sufficient to take you back home back to godhead. However to cultivate the mood of surrender You need a Guru.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#31. There is no sense of worshipping a Guru - or anyone for that matter.
Art Hochberg
#32. Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak
#34. A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.
Jaggi Vasudev
#35. Mother is the reflective principle,
the balancing agent for the child.
Like a guru, she allows the child to
make mistakes and loves the child
without condition. Like nature,
she allows consequences to unfold
and balance to be restored when
it is lost.
Vimala McClure
#36. The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
Radhanath Swami
#37. You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you,
Jaggi Vasudev
#38. Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder ...
If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?
Steve Maraboli
#39. A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
Terence McKenna
#40. I am a traditionalist, I'm not a conventional person, but I am a traditionalist in the true form of the word, in that your heart is opening, you're absolutely there for everyone, the face of pain has no tradition, by the way, and in my tradition, a guru simply means the removal of darkness.
Maya Tiwari
#41. When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
Ian McKellen
#42. If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.
Jaggi Vasudev
#43. It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
Marianne Williamson
#44. It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
Alexander McCall Smith
#45. You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister - or from reading my book.
Jane Roberts
#46. A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.
Alan Finger
#47. Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.
Vikrmn
#48. A self-help guru would call this attitude "bending in the wind," but I just call it "giving up.
Gary Reilly
#49. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
Vikrmn
#50. Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak
#51. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons - a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct
Carrie Fisher
#53. When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.
Ram Dass
#54. The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.
William J. Bernstein
#55. Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru Nanak
#56. Most people think of me as a makeup guru, but might be surprised to know I'm also a trained artist and a huge comic book fan.
Michelle Phan
#57. If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .
Guru Nanak
#58. A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.
Vikrmn
#59. 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
#60. CA means Can-do Attitude. I may fail, but I would not give-up because I believe I can. I am a Chartered Accountant.
Vikrmn
#61. Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.
Guru Nanak
#62. Choices makes us, choices made at mire proves a person to be righteous or evil. It depends on us to be vanquished or to stand indomitable to a predicament.
Prakash Guru
#63. If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.
Guru Nanak
#64. Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Guru Nanak
#65. Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.
Joan Larkin
#66. I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind." So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman.
Ram Dass
#67. Time spent for temporary happiness like movie or outing or weekend on a beach is all synthetic; with shelf life of a day or two. Work for your bigger dreams that should last for whole life. Then movie and beach would seem more interesting, realising that you have done something.
Vikrmn
#68. I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
Peter Drucker
#69. As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
Robin S. Sharma
#70. Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle
Radhe Maa
#71. O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops,
Who even when fountains are full and the land green,
Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain ...
Guru Nanak
#72. Challenge yourself today, to improve, for a better tomorrow than yesterday.
Vikrmn
#73. Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.
Guru Angad
#74. You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.
Wayne W. Dyer
#75. Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. The first step to success is knowing that you failed to do something because many people don't even realise. Second step is to take a first step towards making your dreams true.
Vikrmn
#77. He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.
Guru Nanak
#78. Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.
Vikrmn
#80. Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru Nanak
#81. 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
#82. Going to the guru is like going to the dentist. Once you get there, the ache goes away. We all carry this ache. It is the ache of suffering. The ache is relieved by love, so become a dentist and extend your love to those around you.
John Mundahl
#83. 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
#84. You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.
Alissa Nutting
#85. Our guru taught some valuable thoughts so we easily bring a change in our society.
Mini
#86. Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
Radhe Maa
#87. The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
Ramana Maharshi
#88. You are never a real guru until you understand that you are serving others and delivering them to the light.
Robin Sacredfire
#89. Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.
Shari Arison
#90. A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Criss Jami
#91. Let not the dirt of the sanskaras of your thoughts and deeds touch you, by surrendering every thought and act at the feet of your Guru. As a laundryman washes and cleans clothes, in the same way, I remove all the dirt which has stuck to you through your thoughts and actions.
Meher Baba
#92. If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
Guru Nanak
#93. When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.
Guru Nanak
#94. If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .
Guru Nanak
#95. I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
Cherie Lunghi
#96. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
Christopher Pike
#97. Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.
Robert Thurman
#98. 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
#99. I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.
Susan Powter
#100. CA student is composition of a Compassionate, Cheerful, and Cool aspirant. I will be a Chartered Accountant.
Vikrmn
