Quotes by Teachers - Page 5

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

Idries Shah

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

Idries Shah

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

Idries Shah

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Wally Lamb

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Oswald Chambers

I watched you while you were sleeping and you looked completely at peace. I wish I could feel that. I wish I could close my eyes and feel at peace. But I can’t. I can’t feel anything if I’m notwith you, and even then all I can do is want something that I don’t think I can ever have, at least not now. So I left this, and my peace, with you. Stark.

P.C. Cast

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Idries Shah

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

Idries Shah

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Idries Shah

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

Idries Shah

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Idries Shah

When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.

Julia Cameron

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Idries Shah

Writing... is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you...You don't only listen to the person speaking to you across the table, but simultaneously listen to the air, the chair, and the door. And go beyond the door. Take in the sound of the season, the sound of the color coming in through the windows. Listen to the past, future, and present right where you are. Listen with your whole body, not only with your ears, but with your hands, your face, and the back of your neck.

Natalie Goldberg

This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

P.C. Cast

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

Idries Shah

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

Idries Shah

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

Konstantin Stanislavski

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him."Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees.Naturally, they didn't answer.

John Flanagan

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Idries Shah

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

Idries Shah

Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Idries Shah

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

P.C. Cast

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Idries Shah

In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, shelter me.I needmore of the night before I openeyes and heartto illumination. I must stillgrow in the dark like a rootnot ready, not ready at all.

Denise Levertov

Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

P.C. Cast

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Tom Spanbauer

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Pádraic Pearse

Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it

Idries Shah

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

Teacher David McCullough

Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

Idries Shah

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Clay Shirky

But here we call it Spring, when a young man’s fancy turns,fitfully, lightly, to idling in the sun,to touching in the dark. And the old man's?To worms in their garden box; stepping asidea moment in a poem that will remember,fitfully, who made it and the discordand stammer, and change of heart and catch of breathit sprang from. A bending downlightly to touch the earth.

David Malouf

When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.

Idries Shah

The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.

Robert Henri

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

Golda Meir

Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.

Rafe Esquith

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Idries Shah

Easy. Peasy

P.C. Cast

Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

Oswald Chambers

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.

Oswald Chambers

Patience is the food of understanding.

Idries Shah

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Idries Shah

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Sam Levenson

Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories

Eileen Granfors

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Oswald Chambers

The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!

Idries Shah

The dividing line forms-fashioned from:Dragon's tearsMissed yearsOvercome fearsThe fire and ice paradoxSeen with True SightDarkness does not always equate to evilLight does not always bring good

P.C. Cast

When your focus is on how you feel about things in the world then the things of the world slip from view, your little boat of learning things for what they are are swamped by the swells of how you feel about them. With hard work and with learning, the things of the world are still somehow out there, waiting for you to know about them, no matter how you feel. They survive how you feel about them and they are there before and after the storms of your feelings roar through and abate. Feelings aren't much of a compass to go by.

Stephen Jenkinson

No practice exists in isolation.

Idries Shah

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!

Golda Meir

And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet.

David Malouf

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Clay Shirky

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

Steve Hagen

Now for God's sake, will you two start behaving like a princess and a Courier?" Halt told them. "If you don't, I'll have to think about sending Will home.''Me?' Will said, his voice breaking into a high-pitched squeak of indignation. 'What's it got to do with me?''It's all your fault!' Halt shouted irrationally.

John Flanagan

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribetSubstitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Idries Shah

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

George Mallory

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