Spiritual Teacher Quotes

“Our purpose in this life is to live in higher consciousness and to teach others to live in higher consciousness. But the best test to that consciousness is humility, selflessness, and sweetness. When you teach, teach with honesty, truthfulness, and straightforwardness. As a teacher, never compromise. As a man, always compromise. The teacher who compromises is an idiot; a person who does not compromise is an idiot. Because the teacher does not teach for himself, but for the higher consciousness. And higher consciousness will never compromise with lower consciousness. This is a straight law and that has to be considered as a law; that has to be observed as a law.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“The Teacher provides Spiritual Energy! Just like roots provide nutrients to the flowers!”
― Master Choa Kok Sui, Inspired Action - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Teaching

“Sant Mat (the path and teachings as taught and practiced by saints) delineates the path of union of soul with the Divine. The teachings of the saints explain the re-uniting as follows:

The individual soul has descended from the higher worlds [the Realm of the Divine] to this city of illusion, bodily existence. It has descended from the Soundless state to the essence of Sound, from that Sound to Light, and finally from the realm of Light to the realm of Darkness. The qualities (dharmas, natural tendencies) of the sense organs draw us downward and away from our true nature.

The nature of the soul (atman) draws us upwards and inwards and establishes us in our own true nature. Returning to our origins involves turning inward: withdrawal of consciousness from the senses and the sense objects in order to go upward from the darkness to the realms of Light and Sound. [We experience this phenomenon of withdrawal as we pass from waking consciousness to deep sleep.] Another way to express this is to go inward from the external sense organs to the depth of the inner self. (Both of these expressions are the metaphors that signify the same movement). The natural tendencies of the soul (atman) are to move from outward to inward. The current of consciousness which is dispersed in the nine gates of the body and the senses, must be collected at the tenth gate.

The tenth gate is the gathering point of consciousness. Therein lies the path for our return. The tenth gate is also known as the sixth chakra, the third eye, bindu, the center located between the two eyebrows. This is the gateway through which we leave the gates of the sense organs and enter in the divine realms and finally become established in the soul. We travel back from the Realm of Darkness to the Realm of Light, from the Light to the Divine Sound, and from the Realm of Sound to the Soundless State. This is called turning back to the Source.

This is what dharma or religion really intends to teach us. This is the essence of dharma.”
― Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj

“This mysterious path is described in the holy books, but it cannot be found simply by the study of sacred texts. It is found by the grace and guidance of an accomplished teacher.”
― Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj

“YOU... are a portal to the divine.”
― Tehya Sky

“Knowing what's ETERNAL will sustain you through the EPHEMERAL.”
― Tehya Sky

“There is a Divine Spiritual Teacher within you.

First become totally silent; only listening to the sound of your deep slow breathing.

Then be open; be innocent; and listen..... just listen.......as you breathe.... just listen....”
― Leland Lewis, Angelic Tales of The Universe. Tale 1. The Ancient Woman, The Secret Cave

“A good teacher is clear that their role is ultimately to shine light on the path for others to find their way back to God.”
― Michael Mirdad

“Our intuition is the inner teacher, the inner source of love, truth and wisdom, The old Indian scriptures say that the outer spiritual teacher is helpful to find your own intuition, your inner guide, your own inner teacher. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, When the Drop becomes the Ocean

“The simplicity of life is universal. Mother Nature is a wonderful teacher.”
― Steve Leasock

“Students recognise their teachers. Teachers recognise their students.”
― Donna Goddard, Pittown: A Spiritual Fiction Series

“You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Joy is the human experience of the Divine itself.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Many modern gurus encourage us to ‘be ourselves’. Perhaps it has not occurred to them that we can only ever be ourselves – nothing more, nothing less.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Dance bravely into your own heart, and you will find the love of all.”
― Tehya Sky

“There is nothing wrong in following a teacher in the path of self-awareness, but the moment one begins to see that teacher as the authority of one's life, immediately one goes astray from the path of self-realization and indeed from the path of truth, and eventually ends up in the same kind of trap of doctrines and laws that one wanted to be free from in the first place. That's how all religions have been born. Loyalty to a teacher or messiah, inadvertently leads to psychological slavery, and in often cases, the enslaved is not even aware of the enslavement. It's a kind of illusion one lives in, where the teacher's word or the prophet's doctrines become gospel in the life of an individual. Hence, all shortcomings of that teacher or prophet creep into the life of his followers as well.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“Don't think about it; FEEL about it.”
― Tehya Sky

“Welcome to the Temple of Today.”
― Tehya Sky

“The driving motivation of a spiritual teacher is to show that while the extent of human problems is understood, there is a different way of seeing life.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“When one commits to a spiritual teacher, one automatically benefits from the energetic field of that teacher. All one has to do is to sincerely say to oneself that one is a student of a certain person and it is so. One is then entitled to that teacher’s energetic field. Likewise, if one wishes to extricate oneself from a particular teacher, all one has to do is to sincerely say so to oneself and it is so. The energetic bond is then broken. It does not matter if the teacher is living or deceased. It does not matter if one physically sees the teacher or not. Such things are invisible, beyond space and time, and are nonmaterial.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a great ocean, but that life is one and that we all are small parts of the Whole. We begin to understand what is really important and meaningful in life. It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to
understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding. We begin to understand that life is about giving, rather than taking.
Above the consciousness level of the heart, we need a teacher and a guide. It is somebody who “knows”, who has walked further on the path than us and who can
guide, encourage and inspire us. There is an Indian saying: “When the disciple is ready, the teacher occurs.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Call of the Heart 

“Meditation is the art of learning to listen to our own heart. Meditation is the art of learning to listen to the intuition, the inner guide. Meditation is the art of learning to not listen to the voice of the outer spiritual teacher, but one's own inner spiritual teacher. 
Our intuition, the inner guide, the spiritual teacher within, is always available within ourselves. Our intuition, our inner guide, our spiritual teacher within, is our being, which always wants to talk to you. In each situation, it gives you a message, which is always right. The being shows you what to do and in which direction to move. You will always be able to see the light by listening to the being. In the inner being, there is immense light and clarity. 
The inner being is already in contact with the whole. But mostly we live on the periphery, because our mind is the periphery. So slowly we forget that there is something inside ourselves, which has significant messages to us. Meditation is the process of moving within to the inner being. Rather than listen outside we have to listen inside. To be in contact with the inner being is going the right way. 
God is your inner voice. You have to move within to hear the still, silent voice of God.  When you have learnt to hear it, your whole life is transformed. Then you have learnt to listen to your being and to follow your own heart.

One who can listen to your inner being has learnt a new language. One who can  listen to his being has become capable of listening to the being of the whole  existence. He can hear the song of the birds, he can hear the wind passing through the trees and he can hear the silent whisperings of the trees. 
The meditator has to begin with himself. The meditator begins to listen to his own being, and ends with listening to the being of the world. The day that you realize that your being and the being of the world are not separate, but one is the day of enlightenment. This is the ultimate fulfillment of life. 
The meditator has to make a commitment to put his energy into realizing the phenomenon called God, Tao, dhamma and truth. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“The spiritual path is a call from the other world—so the rest is just about hearing it more clearly, and answering it more fully.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Love is never a one-way street.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya