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The guru is on the path to enlightenment, same as you, but he or she must have more realized qualities of knowledge and realization.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
Meditation is the single most important spiritual practice. Without it we remain at the mercy of habits and tendencies that cause suffering.
Swami Shankarananda • Happy For No Good Reason
If you think the guru exists externally as a truly existing perfect being, like a half-human, half-god, then you are on the way to a very hideous, destructive, and utterly deceiving path.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
Deep and effective spiritual transmission, however, requires darshana, seeing and being seen by the guru.
Kim Knott • Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
satya (honesty of body, speech, and mind).
Michael Stone • The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
Meditation should be on the Self. Everyone knows ‘I am’. Who is the ‘I’? It will be neither within nor without, neither on the right nor on the left. ‘I am’ – that is all.
Sri Sadhu Om • The Path of Sri Ramana
