Quotes by Teachers - Page 4

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Idries Shah

We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.

Oswald Chambers

If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

Wally Lamb

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Idries Shah

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Idries Shah

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

Lewis Buzbee

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Gustav Hoist

Real friends don't leave those who shout and scream, they just stand back and leave them until they are ready to calm down...

Kristina Howells

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.

Robert Henri

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol

Eileen Granfors

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

Wally Lamb

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

Oswald Chambers

Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Idries Shah

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Idries Shah

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

Idries Shah

After a full belly all is poetry.

Frank McCourt

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Oswald Chambers

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Idries Shah

Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.

Oswald Chambers

I am, a shadowthat grows longer as the sunmoves, drawn outon a thread of wonder.If I bear burdensthey begin to be rememberedas gifts, goods, a basketof bread that hurtsmy shoulders but closes mein fragrance. I caneat as I go. ("Stepping Westward")

Denise Levertov

To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Idries Shah

Been dead, done that got a fricken t-shirt

P.C. Cast

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Robert Henri

You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.''Like a stage?' Erak suggested. 'Maybe they're going to put on a play.''Or an execution,' Horace said.

John Flanagan

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

Idries Shah

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

Mariama Bâ

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Wally Lamb

How can you sleep at a time like this?” she asked, but the only answer was a low snore. She looked at him suspiciously. In the short time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore.“You’re faking,” she said.“No. I’m really fast asleep,” came his voice from under the cowl.

John Flanagan

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Idries Shah

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

Oswald Chambers

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

Idries Shah

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

P.C. Cast

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

Julia Cameron

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

David Malouf

Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.

Idries Shah

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

Jack Gantos

Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, “You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

Julia Cameron

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

Idries Shah

You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Taylor Mali

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

Wally Lamb

Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fas as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives every second at a time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and details.

Natalie Goldberg

There is no art without contemplation.

Robert Henri

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.

Idries Shah

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

Julia Cameron

Eww," Jack said, and then giggled. "Yeah, and a Paris Hilton doll that had an optional brain."Aphrodite raised her brow at him. "Don't go all crazy. There are some things even Paris Hilton can't buy.

P.C. Cast

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Konstantin Stanislavski

...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

Oswald Chambers

Amateur detectives in fiction had always annoyed Ella. They were so unrealistic. She didn’t intend to be the Rabbit Back version of Miss Marple or a cheap Baker Street knock-off, and she really didn’t like the idea of making the tabloids. That was no way to advance an academic career. She didn’t want to be an instrument of justice. She just wanted to do some literary research and earn a living.

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

ANDAKI:tEFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

Idries Shah

Second Corinthians speaks concerning the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. The ministry is not merely a matter of gift. A person may be able to speak fluently and eloquently and give many good illustrations and proverbs, but this is just a gift. What the church, the Body, needs today is the ministry.

Witness Lee

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Idries Shah

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Oswald Chambers

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Oswald Chambers

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Ingrid Bengis

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Idries Shah

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Robert Henri

I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense.

Oswald Chambers

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