Top 30 Most Influential People In Spirituality

Source: http://www.tigerfreedom.com/top-30-most-influential-people-in-spirituality/

Spirituality continues to be a major influence in more and more people’s lives. We are looking for depth, meaning and for fulfilment in a world of confusion, social expectations and materialism. This article provides a list with the top 30 most influential people in spirituality right now.

Some of them have already died, while others have only just caught the attention of the public recently. Instead of creating a “boring” top list, I decided to include one significant quote for every spiritual leader to inspire you along the way.

May these spiritual leaders and quotes help you avoid “spiritual bankruptcy”, as John Bradshaw would say.

1. Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama

2. Wayne W. Dyer

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. - Wayne Dyer

3. Eckhart Tolle

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise.

4. Thich Nhat Hanh

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much.

5. Deepak Chopra

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative.

6. Paulo Coelho

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

7. Oprah Winfrey

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time.

8. Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

9. Stephen R. Covey

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about.

10. Desmond Tutu

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

11. Pema Chödrön

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow.

12. David Deida

The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

13. John Bradshaw

There is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up.

14. Richard Bandler

We are the experience that the universe is having. - Richard Bandler

15. Sri Bhagavan

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one.- Sri Bhagavan

16. Alejandro Jodorowsky

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

17. Ken Wilber

It is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. - Ken Wilber

18. Robin Sharma

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. - Robin Sharma

19. Jack Kornfield

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom.

20. Masaru Emoto

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are.

21. Russel Brand

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. - Russel Brand

22. Bernie Siegel

The contrast of everyday life is necessary to sharpen our focus. - Bernie Siegel

23. Aung San Suu Kyi

Human beings want to be free. - Aung San Suu Kyi

24. João de Deus

I have never healed anyone. It is God who heals. - João de Deus

25. Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.  - Alan Watts

26. Nick Vujicic

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again?

27. Jon Kabat-Zinn

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

28. Carlos Casteneda

Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. - Carlos Casteneda

29. Gregg Braden

Beliefs create the "disturbances" in the Field that become the blueprints for our lives.

30. Ram Dass

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones