Guru

🇮🇳Guru Nanak

Education

1469–1539

"You shall everywhere mind the book of the Granth-Sahib as your Guru; whatever you shall ask it will show you."

🇺🇸Ram Dass

Literature

1931–2019

"We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it."

Mahavatar Babaji

Religion

1828–1895

"For the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched."

🇮🇳Mata Amritanandamayi

Politics

b. 1953

"The Verified Facebook Page of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi"

🇺🇸Sakyong Mipham

Education

b. 1962

"Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it."

Guru Gobind Singh

Philosophy

1666–1708

"Guru Govind Singh sought inspiration from the deeds of martial Hindu deities like goddesses Chandi, Sri and Bhagwati."

🇮🇳Rajneesh

Philosophy

Rajneesh movement

1931–1990

"The Christian priest is not interested in God: he is interested in creating a business. He has to claim that Jesus is the only way, that all other ways are wrong. He is in search of customers."

Sai Baba of Shirdi

1836–1918

"I am ever living to help and guide all who come to me, who surrender to me and who seek refuge in me."

🇺🇸Chögyam Trungpa

Education

Buddhism

1939–1987

"The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life."