Quotes About Guru

#1. When I first started, there really was no beauty guru community. I didn't have the right production resources. I had to learn how to edit. I didn't even have beauty products. I had to go out and buy them myself because beauty brands didn't even know what a beauty guru was.

Michelle Phan

#2. When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

Brad Pitt

#3. A guru is a person who can radiate lights of wisdom to enlighten the path of life for others.

Debasish Mridha

#4. He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

Shimon Peres

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna.

Lokanatha Swami

#8. 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

#9. I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

Daniel Tosh

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Chanakya

#13. 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

#14. My soul is my guru; my experience is my guru.

Kumar Pallana

#15. Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is a master thinker. When it comes to systemizing life, no one can touch him.

Doug Wead

#16. Blessed, blessed is the Knower of the Lord, my True Guru, He has taught me to look upon friend and foe alike.

Guru Gobind Singh

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

Ram Dass

#18. Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.

Krishna Das

#19. 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

#20. Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.

Radhanath Swami

#21. Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority.

Sam Keen

#22. The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as "swami", "baba" and "guru" are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. Improve on the Guru. Don't get stuck on the Guru.

Art Hochberg

#25. There is no sense of worshipping a Guru - or anyone for that matter.

Art Hochberg

#26. Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Guru Nanak

#27. This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that's why I sing. Whether it's at the Grammys, whether it's in the bathroom, whether it's in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru's grace, my head stays in that place.

Krishna Das

#28. The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

#29. Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later.
Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.

C.C. Hunter

#30. One does not become a guru by accident.

James Fenton

#31. In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.

Ben Elliot

#32. I felt the smile grow from within, starting in my chest and making its way up to my face. If what the guru had said about auras and energy was accurate, I must have been glowing.

Brownell Landrum

#33. A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

Jaggi Vasudev

#34. 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

#35. Be a truth seeker. Go after it with all your might. Let it seep deep into the marrow of your soul. For it will be the only thing to save you in the end. No savior, no religion, no teacher, no guru can do that. You must do it. It is a lifelong pursuit while on this earth.

Dara Reidyr

#36. My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

Radhanath Swami

#37. 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

#38. Honey, you worry too much. Nothing is going to happen, I mean come on, you're in the house of Mr. Hausefalle, the guru of home security! You're probably safer over there than here.- House Trap, ch. 4: A Grave Mistake.

Mike Mauthor

#39. Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

Sivananda Saraswati

#40. A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.

Frederick Lenz

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

Alan Watts

#42. You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you,

Jaggi Vasudev

#43. He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings ... " He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.

Nick Hornby

#44. 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

#45. In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Ram Dass

#46. With his hair tied back and about three days worth of beard Win looked more like a vagrant than a comm guru. Except for those keen, blue eyes. Eyes currently alive with that uncomfortable piercing quality, as if he were reading his mind.

Marcha A. Fox

#47. If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

Dani Shapiro

#48. 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

#49. There is but one God. True is His Name, creative His personality and immortal His form. He is without fear sans enmity, unborn and self-illumined. By the Guru's grace He is obtained.

Guru Nanak

#50. If you kill the Ravana in you, it's like killing the healthy cells along with cancer cells. Guru with Guitar. Happy Dussehra.

Vikrmn

#51. I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.

Guru Gobind Singh

#52. If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

Ramana Maharshi

#53. Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, "Guru Kripa", it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.

Radhanath Swami

#54. If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

Ali Akbar Khan

#55. 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

#56. Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Robert Genn

#57. The real Journey is a personal venture into your own mind content. Nobody, not the greatest mystic, the most vaunted guru, the most hailed psychologist, though they might shuttle you along the trail for a ways, will get you there. Only you yourself can do that.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#58. The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#59. Guru is not on the way to Krishna, Guru is 'the way' to Krishna.

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

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

Van Morrison

#61. Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!

Jeff Lyons

#62. Ashrams and gurukulas (spiritual schools) are the pillars of spiritual culture. If we perform sadhana according to the guru's advice, we need not go anywhere else. We will get whatever we need from the guru.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#63. Gnan [True Knowledge] means the Guru's experiential talks.

Dada Bhagwan

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.

Radhanath Swami

#67. Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

Frederick Lenz

#68. Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.

Radhanath Swami

#69. Learning is not a race, All wisdom comes at its own pace, Not through practice or praise, But like a blessing, with the guru's grace. The

Chandrika

#70. 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

#71. I am the rich man's guru.

Rajneesh

#72. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#73. It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

Narendra Modi

#74. The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things.

Maya Tiwari

#75. This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Stanislav Grof

#76. I dream of a society that is continuously creating knowledge, where each individual is a part of this creation, where youngsters can pursue courses with freedom of choice, where technology is used for universal access of education and yet the importance of the Guru is retained.

Narendra Modi

#77. While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#78. In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.

Peter J. Carroll

#79. A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

Alan Finger

#80. the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna tells Arjun that his actions, not his beliefs, will set him free. Or, as Guru-ji put it, "When you're in the bathtub, you need to move a little to feel the warmth.

Eric Weiner

#81. How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?

Brian Boyle

#82. Muddy Waters he play in the river Joan Rivers she play in the mud Swami guru play in a big salad bowl Counting lettuce and chewing his cud

Tom Robbins

#83. A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Ram Dass

#84. Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

Ramakrishna

#85. My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

Kailash Kher

#86. Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.

Guru Nanak

#87. 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

#88. I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.

Dov Davidoff

#89. The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

Bhagat Singh

#90. If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

Jaggi Vasudev

#91. The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#92. 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

#93. Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.

Guru Nanak

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

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#95. 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

#96. Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act.

Adam M. Grant

#97. He studied with the guru of rock n' roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you.

Swami Beyondananda

#98. The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru's body and to serve them accordingly.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#99. Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

Stephen Covey

#100. If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

Ram Dass