Guru Quotes

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

  Guru Nanak

  Men, World, Crosses

  95 Copy quote

• There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.

  Guru Nanak

  Kindness, Hate, Self

  83 Copy quote

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

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Heart, Light

  51 Copy quote

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

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

  7 Copy quote

• He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.

  Kabir

  Real, Yoga, Eye

  222 Copy quote

• You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Leader, Pupils

  "Zeitgeist". Documentary, History, 2007.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Self, Dear, Mistaken

  13 Copy quote

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

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

  7 Copy quote

• When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

  This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

  Ram Dass

  Inspiring, Know How, Knows

  8 Copy quote

• One does not become a guru by accident.

  James Fenton

  Doe, Accidents

  "A Master Class in Space Photography with NASA Astronaut Donald Pettit". Interview with Mia Tramz, time.com. July 17, 2014.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

  Guru Nanak

  Feet, Way, Bows

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Sacrifice, Evil, Disease

  196 Copy quote

• I think one of the beauties so far of the so-called Spirit of Seattle is there aren't any leaders, pop stars, or guru figures that everyone else is falling in line with and following. No [Nelson] Mandela, Havel, or Subcomandante Ski Mask riding in on a white horse and everybody else just wanting to follow them to the promised land. We're stitching it together and doing it ourselves.

  Jello Biafra

  Horse, Stars, Fall

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.

  Krishna Das

  Waiting, Life Is

  Twitter post from May 29, 2015

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Teacher, Men, Publishing House

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Thinking, People, Enough

  10 Copy quote

• I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

  Susan Powter

  Hiking, Mountain, India

  7 Copy quote

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

  Van Morrison

  Education, Teacher, Father

  Song: In the Garden, Album: No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Chanakya

  Education, Secret, Share

  79 Copy quote

• 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

  Father, Mets, Amplifiers

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Ocean, Grace, Complaining

  59 Copy quote

• "Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Leadership, Self, Games

  6 Copy quote

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

  This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

  Ram Dass

  God, Suffering, Found

  6 Copy quote

• Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Grace

  26 Copy quote

• A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Believe, Fall, Survival

  28 Copy quote