Spiritual Teachers Quotes - Page 2

• The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

  Alan Chadwick

  Spiritual, Teacher, Instruction

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Loss

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

  Martha Beck

  Spiritual, Teacher, Religious

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• Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Remember You

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• You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Spiritual, Teacher, Light

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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• If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.

  Rajiv Mehrotra

  Spiritual, Teacher, Past

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• I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mothers Day, Spiritual, Teacher

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• What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Teacher, Ego

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• When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.

  Woody Harrelson

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Spiritual

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Teacher

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• You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from...Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, West

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• The kundalini comes in two primary forms when it comes forward from a spiritual teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhism

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• The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Meditation

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• You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Jesus

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• You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on earth can help you too. When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

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• An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Light

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• Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

  Bell Hooks

  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhism

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• If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Identity

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in every matter but in spiritual matters, to a spiritual teacher is in a sense a lower level of surrendering one's will to God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Machines

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Differences

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• At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Powerful

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