Quotes by Teachers - Page 16

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.
Idries Shah
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either
Golda Meir
The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.
Oswald Chambers
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Stuart Wilde
It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.
Idries Shah
Yes, he is here in thisopen field, in sunlight, amongthe few young trees set outto modify the bare facts--he's here, but onlybecause we are here.When we go, he goes with usto be your hands that neverdo violence, your eyesthat wonder, your livesthat daily praise lifeby living it, by laughter.He is never alone here,never cold in the field of graves.
Denise Levertov
But I see how he watches the stars,And he talks to people just because, And gee, it would be nice to have a friend."From "Fated" in BREATHE IN
Eileen Granfors
Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Idries Shah
Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:FirstNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
Idries Shah
Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.
John Flanagan
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.
John Taylor Gatto
Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
It is up to us to decide what human means, and exactly how it is different from machine, and what tasks ought and ought not to be trusted to either species of symbol-processing system. But some decisions must be made soon, while the technology is still young. And the deciding must be shared by as many citizens as possible, not just the experts. In that sense, the most important factor in whether we will all see the dawn of a humane, sustainable world in the twenty-first century will be how we deal with these machines a few of us thought up and a lot of us will be using.
Howard Rheingold
Remember whose you are and whom you serve.
Oswald Chambers
He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.
David Malouf
Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?
Idries Shah
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.
Pádraic Pearse
The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.
Idries Shah
Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.
Idries Shah
Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.
P.C. Cast
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
Idries Shah
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
Idries Shah
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Idries Shah
Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?""Of course I would!" Halt replied immediately. But something in his voice rang false and Horse looked at him, raising one eyebrow. He'd waited a long time for an opportunity to use that expression of disbelief on Halt.After a pause, the Ranger's anger subsided."All right. Perhaps I wouldn't," he admitted. Then he glared at Horace. "And stop raising that eyebrow on me. You can't even do it properly. Your other eyebrow moves with it!
John Flanagan
One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.
Oswald Chambers
No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.
John Flanagan
How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth
P.C. Cast
After a full belly all is poetry.
Frank McCourt
To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
Frank McCourt
That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.
Rafe Esquith
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
Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you rate my horse more important than our Corps Commandant," Halt said, one eyebrow rising in the expression that Will knew so well. Early in their relationship, he had thought it was an expression of displeasure. He had learned years ago that it was, for Halt, the equivalent of a smile.
John Flanagan
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...
Clay Shirky
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.
Idries Shah
Any fool with ambition and heartlessness can be a ruler.
Tomichan Matheikal
The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there.
Idries Shah
Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.
Taylor Mali
if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead
P.C. Cast
Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.
Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
Idries Shah
Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.
Idries Shah
Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.
Idries Shah
God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?
Tom Spanbauer
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.
Idries Shah
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
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
it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
Idries Shah
Trust in families and in neighborhoods and individuals to make sense of the important question, 'What is education for?' If some of them answer differently from what you might prefer, that's really not your business, and it shouldn't be your problem. Our type of schooling has deliberately concealed the fact that such a question must be framed and not taken for granted if anything beyond a mockery of democracy is to be nurtured. It is illegitimate to have an expert answer that question for you.
John Taylor Gatto
Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.
Oswald Chambers
SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.
Idries Shah
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
Idries Shah
Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.
Mariama Bâ
THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Idries Shah
As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives.
Oswald Chambers
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Idries Shah
Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith.This morning, men deliver wounds and death.They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.
Idries Shah
A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything
Idries Shah