I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama! — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher;… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
“I maintain that Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism all hold up love as an ideal, seek… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A good teacher is clear that their role is ultimately to shine light on the path for others to find their way… — Michael Mirdad Copy Share Image
“When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction. — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual… — Larry Gatlin Copy Share Image
“Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Now more than ever, in this age of violence and confusion, there is an urgent need for parents to take on the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image