I've never been uncomfortable with the host of modern gurus, and gurus of different motivations I should say, or different intentions. You know, we are moving into a time where it's extremely commercial, but then I keep reminding those that I speak to that consciousness has no products, it really has no commerciality.
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.
In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.
In Zen we have no gurus.
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism
My gurus were Dharmendra and Shatrughan Sinha.
A beard doesn't grow only on gurus; it grows on all men.
I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.
I want to tell the students to follow their heart and respect their parents and teachers as they are their ultimate gurus.
Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.
The first generation of Russian terrorists came out of the '60s counterculture - the 1860s in Russia bearing a striking similarity to the 1960s in the United States, with Russian students growing their hair, following gurus who extolled the 'new man,' and starting communes.
... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.
Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.
I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.