Top 60 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Gurus

You can plan for a hundred years. But you don't know what will happen the next moment.

When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.

To control the mind with force is like putting a viper in a basket.

Never put anyone out of your heart.

Love is the strongest medicine.

Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank.

I don't want anything. I exist only to serve others.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

The true India resides in its villages.

Often one goes for one thing and finds another

See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.

You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.

You must...know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies.

Meditate like Christ...He lost himself in love.

Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.

What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.

Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

The moment you have faith, there is the experience. The moment you have trust, there is realization, there is enlightenment. Then this world no longer exists as the world. The world exists as the Self. It exists as God. And then, with our physical eyes, we can see the light of God everywhere and in everything.

The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute.

The best form to see God in... is in every form

If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.

Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

Whoever works for God, his work will be done by itself.

It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

Every line of the Hanuman Chalisa is a Mahamantra.

Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.

Money should be used to help others.

It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of good can come about, is to let the ego play God-and that, as you know, can and does backfire.

Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

The whole universe is our home and all residing in it belong to our family... instead of trying to see God in a particular appearance, it is better to see him in everything.

It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.

Cleanse the mirror of your heart, and you will see God.

Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.

Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.

Love all, serve all, feed all.

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody.

The best form in which to worship God is every form.

God is without visible form, yet in the heart, God is revealed.

Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.

Everything is impermanent, except the love of God.

A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody ... The same blood flows through us all, the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same. See no difference. See all the same.

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.