No matter what spiritual path you are following and no matter who is your guru, your spirituality is measured by the degree of earnestness that you apply to adopting “spiritual dogma” into your every-day life. This is what I call spiritual honesty – reading, attending, participating, visiting, etc. is nothing more than a little decoration of your self unless, the theory permeates your life – without exception.
People with various degrees of spiritual awareness will (ideally) use teachings and teachers that they can understand. For no matter how keen are you to immerse yourself into spirituality, beginning with a book of Zen koans will do little good to your confidence; quite opposite, it can discourage you from embracing spirituality as a way of life.

Spiritual novice and an experienced practitioner are both vulnerable to attacks by spiritual charlatans and peddlers of “commercial spirituality”. The former can easily be duped into following non-integrous teachings; the latter, are often enmeshed in the doctrine and its many interpretations, and to make the things worse, fall a prey to the trend of sophistry and exclusivity.And whilst it is none of my business to try to correct one’s spiritual path, let alone preach or promote a new guru, there are universal spiritual truths that have proved themselves through the ages.
Although most of them have originated from the spiritual masters I’ve chosen to follow, their unquestionable veracity should make them acceptable to all spiritual practitioners. It doesn’t matter whether you’re following bhakti yoga or atma yoga.

Here are the spiritual canons (in no particular order) well worth adopting:

“Whatever goes on in the world is based on concept. The concept in action is “mind.” Have you thoroughly understood the fact that you are not the concept but the knower of the concept?
Whatever names and designations exist in the world, they are all concepts. And you are not the concept. Only look at yourself. This is ‘you.’
There is nothing to be done! I will never let you go away from it.
Nothing to be lived. When you realize what is living, what you think you are living, is that you are merely being lived.
Whatever you may think you have understood, whatever is your knowledge, it is all a concept.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj

“All the concepts you have formed in the past must be discarded and replaced by void.”
Huang Po

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received—only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”
St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226).

“In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act.
What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.”
Ramana Maharshi

“Anyone who does not give up all he has cannot be my disciple.”
Jesus Christ

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven.”
Luke18-25

“Beginningless time and the present moment are the same. There is no this and no that.”
Huang Po

“There is no fundamental reality.”
The Buddha

“Remember that from first to last not even the smallest grain of anything perceptible has ever existed or ever will exist.”
Huang Po

“Mind is substantially without error, whenever thoughts arise, you will be fully convinced that THEY are responsible for errors. If you could prevent all conceptual movements of thought and still all your thinking-processes, naturally there would be no error left in you.”
Huang Po

“When thoughts arise, then all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then all things vanish.”
Anon

“So who is it that needs enlightenment? There is no entity that needs enlightenment. There is no such thing as enlightenment!”
Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Truth has no form and no name, while religions go by rules and rituals.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj

Instead of framing some and hanging them on the wall, live by them. In time, you’ll realize what you are and always have been. This will be the end of your seeking – home at last!