Sublime

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has spent much of his life teaching yoga-based breathing practices around the world through his organization the Art of Living Foundation.

Sufi teacher Idries Shah

the guru, the spiritual teacher, is in every one of us. All that another person can do is to make us aware of the teacher within ourselves.

Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual se

SUFI MUSICIAN, HEALER, AND MYSTIC HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Among them, I recommend Pandit’s Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism for the new student. More yogic works are Swami Lakshmanjoo’s Self Realisation and The Secret Supreme, Swami Chetanananda’s Dynamic Stillness I and II, and, of course, Siddha Meditation by Swami Muktananda.

Meditation is the single most important spiritual practice. Without it we remain at the mercy of habits and tendencies that cause suffering.

freedom. The twentieth-century Indian meditation master Sri Nisargadatta