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Among the Sufis, if you go to a person, he will train you, then after a while, he will say that you have learned all that you can from me, go to the other one. So you learn. Finally, you come to th...

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A true spiritual teacher is not in the business of gathering disciples. A teacher is one that is more concerned about the aspirants’ aspirations and that he/she should move towards the Truth, rathe...

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The first requisite is seriousness and urgency for finding the Truth. Then, the way you go depends on your personality, your background, and your past. So, before you accept a path, don’t be in a h...

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There is one important requisite to find the truth, whichever path you may follow. And that is the urgent, earnest desire to find the truth.

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Nobody has moved on the spiritual path only by reading or by collecting material. You cannot attain the highest; Nirvana, Moksha or Kaivalya by standing on your head for three hours.

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What you know, your scholarship and your practice that is one side. That your mind absorbs that and blooms is because of truthfulness, non-injury to others and humility.

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The first thing you realize is that you are nothing. We are insignificant little particles of sand near the sea. We come and we are gone tomorrow. Humility is an inner feeling that ‘I am nothing in...

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Grace is like a beautiful breeze when it blows. It carries its own beautiful scents of the flowers that it blows through. It’s available to us, but how will we get the breeze if we shut our windows...

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Grace cannot come unless we have some kind of humility. The moment it’s gone then you shut the doors and they are concrete doors, not ordinary wooden doors. So even if Grace wants to come, it canno...

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You may know some things and have the capacity to know many things if you want. But certainly, there are other people who also know things which you don’t know of.

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If I say I know everything, then the mind is closed. When the mind becomes closed, humility slowly vanishes.

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The more a person goes into the depths of spiritual understanding and meditation, the person becomes more humble.