One does not become a guru by accident.
Meditate upon the guru as the glow of your awareness.
I am the rich man's guru.
While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?
How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?
Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless. "
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.
The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.
I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.
By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
I am a traditionalist, I'm not a conventional person, but I am a traditionalist in the true form of the word, in that your heart is opening, you're absolutely there for everyone, the face of pain has no tradition, by the way, and in my tradition, a guru simply means the removal of darkness.
A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.
There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.
QBert is pretty much the Jimi Hendrix of DJing. He is so far advanced. So far ahead of everybody else. He's like Yoda! Like the guru.
I never say I am a guru.