Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Where the Spirit is, there is liberty.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Patriotism ... for rulers is nothing else than a tool for achieving their power-hungry and money-hungry goals, and for the ruled it means renouncing their human dignity, reason, conscience, and slavish submission to those in power. ... Patriotism is slavery.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

One does not become a guru by accident.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.