Gurus Quotes

“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.”
― Joseph Campbell, An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms

“If any of the great avatars - Buddha, Jesus, Khrishna, Mohammed - were present in human form on this planet today, what would they be doing? I doubt they would be posting selfies.⁠”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“The Guru is the “eye” surgeon, who can restore our inner vision.”
― Dada J. P. Vaswani

“You need many teachers, not one teacher; you need many gurus, not one guru; you need many books not one book!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Most “gurus” are just spewing bullshit and hoping that you’re a fly.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Critical examination of the lives and beliefs of gurus demonstrates that our psychiatric labels and our conceptions of what is or is not mental illness are woefully inadequate. How for example does one distinguish an unorthodox or bizarre faith from delusion? Gurus are isolated people, dependent upon their disciples with no possibility of being disciplined by a church or criticised by contemporaries. They are above the law. The guru usurps the place of god. Whether gurus have suffered from manic depressive illness, schizophrenia or any other form of recognised diagnosable mental illness is interesting, but ultimately unimportant. What distinguishes gurus from more orthodox teachers is not their manic depressive mood swings, not their thought disorders, not their delusional beliefs, not their hallucinatory visions, not their mystical states of ecstasy. It is their narcissism.”
― Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus

“I believe that myths about spiritual masters as perfect human beings have done more harm than good in our society. While looking for what you may perceive as a spiritual master (and in many cases the search is a mere reflection of your own likes and dislikes) you may overlook a simple and profound teacher that could easily guide you along the spiritual path. When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, The Seven Human Needs: A practical guide to finding harmony and balance in everyday life

“Often, people get a temporary high, a fleeting sense of belonging and well-being from the illusion of strength that comes from attaching themselves to gurus, without realizing that the energy they associate with the so called holy person comes from within themselves.”
― Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers

“People that encounter me cannot understand why I refuse to worship, either it is a religion, a prophet or a writer. They don't understand that I was born to be worshipped, and not worship, As me, many others have been here before and face the same. People disdain, ignore and ridicule the living while worshipping the dead. And once I'm gone, the cycle will repeat, with someone better than me facing what I face now. I'm great now, not 300 years from now, when everyone will agree with this statement but I won't be here to disagree wit it and show a better path.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.”
― Scott Stabile

“Indian Gurus are masters in downplaying the importance of earthly expansion.”
― Ingmar Veeck

“The only way to be a master is to know the previous masters!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Great gurus are not great writers, but great writers are great gurus!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“So many gurus have emerged in the world that you must be a guru yourself to choose the right guru!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To find out if the person you have chosen as your guru is a true guru, first of all, check whether he is an arrogant person regardless of his level of knowledge! No one with arrogance can be a guru!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There may still be people who think of Carl Gustav Jung only as a distinguished psychiatrist who enlarged our understanding of the mind and who also made important contributions to psychotherapy. He did both, but his variety of analysis is not simply concerned with the relief of neurotic symptoms; it promises a secular form of salvation. Jung was a spiritual teacher as well as a physician.”
― Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus