Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did."
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Guru
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Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"Guru, God and Self are One"
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is."
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"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?"
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"When you know how to listen everyone is the guru"
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"You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is."
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"My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too."
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"A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are."
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"To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it."
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"I never say I am a guru."
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"Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette."
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"The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for."
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"I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day."
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"My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere."
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"A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere."
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"When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush."
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"In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both."
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"I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru."
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"[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing."
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"A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna."
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