Quotes by Teachers - Page 6

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.
Idries Shah
Because it's there.
G. H. L. Mallory
Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.
Wally Lamb
My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
George Mallory
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.
Oswald Chambers
Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock of isolation, begging the winds for inspiration, and it makes it something as do-able as picking up a hammer and pounding a nail. Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft. It is a simple and workable thing that can be as steady and reliable as a chore—does that ruin the romance?
Julia Cameron
Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.
Julia Cameron
When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?
Idries Shah
The sarcastic little know-it-all needs help, does he?
John Flanagan
the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.
Tony Danza
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.
Idries Shah
I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.
Tom Spanbauer
[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself.
Wally Lamb
This is what I like," said Jesse. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
Idries Shah
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
Oswald Chambers
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-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.
Idries Shah
The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object lesson: people believe that knowledge must be given freely, and consequently mistake everything which is free for knowledge. I do not always lecture because, among Sufis, “The Master finds the pupil.” The pupil has to be physically present: but he may be absent in every other sense. When I discern that a pupil is “present” then I “find” him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.' 'Seek and you will be found.
Idries Shah
The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
Idries Shah
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.
Idries Shah
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
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
Idries Shah
What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.
Idries Shah
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron
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
The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.
Idries Shah
You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.
Idries Shah
The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.
Idries Shah
Halt," said Horace, "I've been thinking..."Halt and Will exchanged an amused glance. "Always a dangerous pastime," they chorused. For many years, it had been Halt's unfailing response when Will had made the same statement. Horace waited patiently while they had their moment of fun, then continued."Yes, yes. I know. But seriously, as we said last night, Macindaw isn't so far away from here...""And?" Halt asked, seeing how Horace had left the statement hanging."Well, there's a garrison there and it might not be a b ad idea for one of to go fetch some reinforcements. It wouldn't hurt to have a dozen knights and men-at-arms to back us up when we run into Tennyson."But Halt was already shaking his head."Two problems, Horace. It'd take too long for one of us to get there, explain it all and mobilize a force. And even if we could do it quickly, I don't think we'd want a bunch of knights blundering around the countryside, crashing through the bracken, making noise and getting noticed." He realized that statement had been a little tactless. "No offense, Horace. Present company excepted, of course.
John Flanagan
Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.
Idries Shah
A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work
Idries Shah
Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.
Oswald Chambers
Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.
Frank McCourt
A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)
Idries Shah
Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.
Idries Shah
A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.
Idries Shah
The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
Idries Shah
If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one
John Flanagan
Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.
P.C. Cast
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
Julia Cameron
But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.
P.C. Cast
to split the very sea into ours and theirs." Border at the BeachAnd More White Sheets
Eileen Granfors
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
Idries Shah
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
Mariama Bâ
Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.
Oswald Chambers
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
Idries Shah
There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.
Tom Spanbauer
We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.
Hayley Long
[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.
Hal Clement
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.
Idries Shah
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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P.C. Cast
Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)
Idries Shah
... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
Oswald Chambers
We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!
Taylor Mali
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
You make me sound like an arrogant ass," he said."Are you?""No! I'm just me.
P.C. Cast