Guru Quotes - Page 9

• The wisdom or the essence of Guru Tattwa is a balance. Like when you maintain a plant, if you do not give it water it will die. If you give it too much water, it will die. So the wisdom lies in understanding how much water should be given to the plant, so that it comes up at its best. Now this wisdom has to be achieved through your vibratory awareness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Lying

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• 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

  Feet, Clothes, Dirt

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• Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• 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

  Life, Success, Business

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• When we awaken the love for God, that love naturally extends toward every living being. Also, the concept of Krishna and Radha, the masculine and feminine aspect of the one supreme God, was so inclusive that it touched my heart. So when Prabhupada came, I was already following his path. But it was when I saw his compassion, concern and deep wisdom, that I accepted him as my guru and decided to try and assist him. I felt that was where my real home was.

  Radhanath Swami

  Real, Home, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep ecstasy will happen between you and your master. Wherever there is a `let-go', ecstasy happens - that is the law.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Law, Ego

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

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Heart, Krishna

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

  Lokanatha Swami

  Spiritual, Krishna, Servant

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

  Alan Finger

  Yoga, Worship, Needed

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• 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

  Spiritual, Guidance, Mercy

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• Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Education, Curiosity

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.29, Knopf

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• It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Mean, Self

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• Guru is not on the way to Krishna, Guru is 'the way' to Krishna.

  Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

  Spiritual, Way, Krishna

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• I traveled around America and then at nineteen, went to Europe and hitchhiked from London to the Himalayas in India. I studied various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and in India, various forms of Buddhism and Hinduism. Eventually, I came to the path of unconditional love and devotion to the one God, who in our tradition we call Krishna. I met my guru and became a swami. This allowed me to share that gift, which I consider to be a very deep universal expression of compassion.

  Radhanath Swami

  Buddhism, Unconditional Love, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stay Strong, Powerful, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• [Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Trump, Knows

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Blue, Hands

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

  Edward Abbey

  Spiritual, Food, Cooking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• 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

  Children, Sibling, Kids

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• I like the idea of seeing Krishna as a baby, the way He's often depicted in India. And also Govinda, the cowherd boy. I like the idea that you can have Krishna as a baby and feel protective to Him, or as your friend, or as the guru or master - type figure.

  George Harrison

  Baby, Boys, Ideas

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• The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Light, Darkness, Balance

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.236, A&C Black

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

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Heart, Desire

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• How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something that the globalisation gurus seem altogether to have foregone), and a challenge (how negotiate difference, how to address inequality, and so forth).

  Doreen Massey

  Differences, Space, Challenges

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.

  Van Morrison

  Men, Vision, Nerves

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com.

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