Quotes by Teachers - Page 7

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.
Oswald Chambers
Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.
Clay Shirky
Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.
Idries Shah
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
Julia Cameron
I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense.
Oswald Chambers
Eww," Jack said, and then giggled. "Yeah, and a Paris Hilton doll that had an optional brain."Aphrodite raised her brow at him. "Don't go all crazy. There are some things even Paris Hilton can't buy.
P.C. Cast
[W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self – in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay;
Steve Hagen
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.
Oswald Chambers
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
Idries Shah
An intelligent man [doesn’t] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods
Jack Chalker
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
Idries Shah
I would be happy to take credit for all of the wonderful experiences I describe in my novels, but my life isn’t quite that rich. Unfortunately we authors are sometimes forced to use other people’s lives, too.”“Sounds rather beastly,” the journalist laughed. “Or maybe writers are like vultures. Some people feel we journalists are.” He mimicked a bird of prey and grinned.
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.
Idries Shah
You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.
Idries Shah
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
Oswald Chambers
If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.
Idries Shah
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.
Golda Meir
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
Tom Spanbauer
Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.
Oswald Chambers
Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.
Idries Shah
There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.
Oswald Chambers
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
Natalie Goldberg
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.
Idries Shah
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Clay Shirky
I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.
Brendan Halpin
What slave work do you want me to do for you?” asked Diogenes when he had been bought.“Be a teacher to my children,” answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.
Tomichan Matheikal
EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
Idries Shah
If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!
Idries Shah
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.
Idries Shah
The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.
Idries Shah
StagesFirst I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong.What was wrong was to remain in either of the first two stages. What was right was to convey this to everyone.(Ardabili)
Idries Shah
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Idries Shah
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.
Idries Shah
Insanity is hereditary you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.
Natalie Goldberg
What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.
Idries Shah
Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.
Idries Shah
The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obsession for faith, are themselves destroyers of the very thing which they imagine themselves called upon to try to protect.In fact, of course, they have no such call: and their capacity to protect something which is other than their imaginings makes for a comical situation.
Idries Shah
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
Idries Shah
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
Oswald Chambers
The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.
Idries Shah
For every Pharoah there is a Moses.
Idries Shah
Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe
Idries Shah
Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.
Idries Shah
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
Idries Shah
At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.
Idries Shah
He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.
Idries Shah
People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.
John Taylor Gatto
Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.
Oswald Chambers
Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean."Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow."I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.
John Flanagan
People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.
Clay Shirky
What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
Wally Lamb
A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.
Idries Shah
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda Meir
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.
Oswald Chambers
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
Idries Shah
The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!
Idries Shah
Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.
Gillian Shields
...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that’s the image of modern life you’re looking for!
Paul Amadeus Dienach