Quotes by Teachers - Page 23

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
Eileen Favorite
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
A stolen kiss is not easily returned.
Idries Shah
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'.
Aaron Copland
Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
Julia Cameron
The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.
Tomichan Matheikal
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
Idries Shah
You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.
P.C. Cast
She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.
Gwendolyn Brooks
The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.
Oswald Chambers
The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.
Idries Shah
The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Bion identified several ways that groups can slide into pure emotion - they can become "groups for pairing off," in which members are mainly interested in forming romantic couples or discussing those who form them; they can become dedicated to venerating something, continually praising the object of their affection (fan groups often have this characteristic, be they Harry Potter readers or followers of the Arsenal soccer team), or they can focus too much on real or perceived external threats. Bion trenchantly observed that because external enemies are such spurs to group solidarity, some groups will anoint paranoid leaders because such people are expert at identifying external threats, thus generating pleasurable group solidarity even when the threats aren't real.
Clay Shirky
People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.
Idries Shah
We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.
Idries Shah
Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow--for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.
P.C. Cast
I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.
Jake Wizner
A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep
Eileen Granfors
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.
Sam Levenson
Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.
Idries Shah
I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.
Idries Shah
What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
Idries Shah
...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
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness
Julia Cameron
A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.
Idries Shah
If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.
Steve Hagen
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
Idries Shah
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
Oswald Chambers
Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.
Oswald Chambers
As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.
Steve Hagen
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it.
Oswald Chambers
George!' [Horace] said, the relief evident in his voice. 'Are you all right?''No! I am not!' George replied with considerable spirit. 'I have a whacking great arrow stuck through my arm and it hurts like the very dickens! How could anybody be all right in those circumstances?'...'You saved my life, George,' Horace said gently...George grimaced. 'Well, if I'd known it was going to hurt like this, I wouldn't have! I would have just let them shoot you! Why do you live this way?' he demanded in a high-pitched voice. 'How can you bear it? This sort of thing is very, very painful. I always suspected that warriors are crazy. Now I know.
John Flanagan
Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
Idries Shah
Humility has to precede instruction.
Idries Shah
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Julia Cameron
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
Idries Shah
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
Laura Towne
ScrapsThe scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil
Idries Shah
Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.
Frank McCourt
Check it out-this is a copy of a painting of a Greek High Priestess named Calliope. it says she was also the Poet Laureate after Sappho. Doesn't she look exactly like Cher?'Wow, that's insane. She does look just like young Cher,' Erin said.Yeah, before she started wearing those white wigs. What the hell's up with that?' Shaunee said.Damien gave the Twins a look. 'There is nothing wrong with Cher. Absolutely. Nothing.'Uh-oh,' Shaunee said.Stepped on a gay nerve,' Erin agreed.
P.C. Cast
Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree."You have no sense of drama or symbolism, do you?" he asked."Huh?" replied Horace, not quite understanding. Halt looked around for a convenient tree. Luckily for Horace, there were none in sight.
John Flanagan
Ali, Son of the Father of the SeekerAli said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called “humanity”, they cannot arrive at the Truth.
Idries Shah
Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.
Idries Shah
Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.
Idries Shah
Though she had been surprised to find that murder was so thoroughly enjoyable, Mrs Bennet did not believe that this reflected any fault or wickedness in her character. She knew she only committed these acts tosecure the future well-being of her daughters. Naturally, she would be able to stop killing once her daughters had husbands and there was no further use for such bloodthirsty deeds. Indeed, she felt adamant that she only enjoyed the planning and execution of such matters because her daughters had not been so good as to provide her with wedding preparations to occupy her active mind.
Debbie Cowens
We need to be impressed with these words in verse [2 Cor. 1:]9—“we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God.” Through the redemption of Christ, the very God, who is in the heavens, has come into us, into our spirit (Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22). Thank the Lord that He is now in our spirit, calling us to forget about the soulish things and turn to our spirit to meet Him. We should no longer trust in our self, in our soul, but in God who is in our spirit.
Witness Lee
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Clay Shirky
I was wounded by a blow of love.
Tom Spanbauer
Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.
Idries Shah
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
Frank McCourt
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
Julia Cameron
… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.
Idries Shah
The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.
Idries Shah
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.
Idries Shah
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
Idries Shah
Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?
Idries Shah
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
Idries Shah
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.
P.C. Cast
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.
Natalie Goldberg
Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken.
Idries Shah