Enlightenment Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or…

— Frederick Lenz

I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once…

— Doris Lessing

The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in…

— Maya Tiwari

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

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the sense that…

— Krishna Das

Those who focus their consciousness on the True Guru are perfectly fulfilled and famous.

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some…

— Robert Thurman

The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru…

— Ramakrishna

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Guru is not the goal. Anyone who establishes himself as a guru to be worshipped is not a guru. Guru is like a boat…

— Swami Rama of the Himalayas Dec. 31 1969

“We learned a lot about cults in seminary,” he said, “but to be honest, I haven’t given it much thought since it doesn’t seem…

— Glenda C. Manus