Quotes by Teachers - Page 4

[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him.'Will? Are you asleep?'...'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not now.''Good,' Halt replied, a trifle smugly. 'Serves you right.
John Flanagan
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
Oswald Chambers
The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
Idries Shah
We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here.
Oswald Chambers
Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.
Idries Shah
Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight."Three of us would make four times the noise he will," Halt said.Horace frowned, not quite understanding the equation. "Wouldn't three of us make three times the noise?"Halt shook his head. "Will and Tug will make hardly any noise. Neither will Abelard and I. But as for you and that moving earthquake you call a horse..." He gestured at Kicker and left the rest unsaid.
John Flanagan
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
Oswald Chambers
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
Idries Shah
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
Natalie Goldberg
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
Aaron Copland
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
Clay Shirky
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
Oswald Chambers
SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)
Idries Shah
Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
Wally Lamb
The "if I had time" lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and that writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born - without the luxury of time.
Julia Cameron
Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.
Idries Shah
She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.
John Horne Burns
The mine is always bigger than the gem.
Idries Shah
Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]
Steve Hagen
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
Idries Shah
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
Idries Shah
We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.
Oswald Chambers
Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.
Idries Shah
C'mon. I'll show you.""Thou speakest strange!" Pearl said."So do thou!" I said."Thee!""Thou!" I said.
Eileen Favorite
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Oswald Chambers
It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.
Idries Shah
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
Idries Shah
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
John Taylor Gatto
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb
Idries Shah
People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.
Idries Shah
No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.
Idries Shah
It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.
Idries Shah
No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.
Idries Shah
Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.
Idries Shah
But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.
John Flanagan
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
Julia Cameron
The reward for attention is always healing.
Julia Cameron
Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.
Konstantin Stanislavski
There is more to darkness than nightfall.
David Malouf
Continuously, in commemoration of the FriendWe drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.
Idries Shah
It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed
Idries Shah
It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
Idries Shah
Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death.
Idries Shah
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Oswald Chambers
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
Idries Shah
I'd say," the Ranger answered after a few seconds' deliberation, "that he'll be heading south now that he has the chance. Back into Araluen.""How do you know that?" Horace asked. He was always impressed at the two Rangers' ability to read a situation and come up with the correct answer to a problem. Sometimes, he thought, they almost seemed to have divine guidance."I'm guessing," Halt told him.
John Flanagan
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
Oswald Chambers
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all he is connected with God by prayer and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
Oswald Chambers
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
Idries Shah
The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
David McCullough Jr.
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
Robert Henri
Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.
John Flanagan
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
Idries Shah
Fighting positions, please, ladies...''That's debatable,' Halt said in an undertone to Will as they stood watching...'The 'fighting' part or the 'ladies' part?' Will replied with a grin.Halt looked at him and shook his head. 'Definitely the 'ladies,'' he said. 'There's no debate about the 'fighting.''Will shrugged. He knew there was an edginess to the girls' relationship and that it had something to do with him. Why that should be so was beyond him.
John Flanagan
See with your soul and not your eyesbecause to dance with the beasts youmust penetrate their disguise.
P.C. Cast
Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.
Bel Kaufman
I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character
P.C. Cast
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform
Idries Shah
Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.
Idries Shah