Quotes by Teachers - Page 12

How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of ancient Egyptian religion but had no curiosity about Islam, which seemed an amalgam of oddities and borrowings. She felt with conviction what she'd written home more than once--that Egypt would be an exquisite country if not for the Egyptians who lived there.
Enid Shomer
Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.
Idries Shah
Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God's family.(Muhammad the Prophet)
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.
Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.
Idries Shah
Teaching:One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.Saying of the Prophet
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetHelping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.
Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.
Idries Shah
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.
P.C. Cast
It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice.
Natalie Goldberg
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
Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, “You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
If we eliminate the word "writer", if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules dissappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form that is inherent in the thing we are observing, listening to, and trying to put on the page. It has rules of its own that it will reveal to us if we listen with attention. Shape does not need to be imposed. Shape is a part of what we are listening to. When we just let ourselves write, we get it "right".
Julia Cameron
Many rulers would have spent the morning complaining loudly about the cold and the discomfort, as if their complaints would actually serve to alleviate the situation and as if their attendants should be able to do something about it. Not the emperor. He accepted the situation knowing that he could do nothing to change the weather. Best to endure it without making life more difficult for those around him.
John Flanagan
Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference
Wally Lamb
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
Idries Shah
Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.
Jack Gantos
Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
Clay Shirky
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
Clay Shirky
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
Clay Shirky
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
Clay Shirky
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
Clay Shirky
We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!
Taylor Mali
Come closer, Kurokuma. It's quite safe.'Horace shuffled closer to the edge...'Quite safe, my foot,' he muttered to himself. 'And what's this Kurokuma you keep calling me?''It's a term of great respect,' Shigeru told him.'Great respect,' Shukin echoed.
John Flanagan
What was that, Kurokuma?' asked one of the escorts riding near him. The others chuckled at the name.'Nothing important,' Horace said. Then he looked at them suspiciously. 'What's this Kurokuma business?'The Senshi looked at him with a completely staight face.'It's a term of great respect,' he said. Several others within earshot nodded confirmation. They too managed to remain straight-faced. It was a skill the Nihon-Jan had perfected.'Great respect,' one of them echoed.
John Flanagan
Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as you see them. You are new evidence, fresh and young. Your work, the spirit of youth, you are the progress of human evolution. If age dulls you it will be time enough then to be ponderous and heavy--or quit. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be young, to continue growing--not to settle and accept.
Robert Henri
But here we call it Spring, when a young man’s fancy turns,fitfully, lightly, to idling in the sun,to touching in the dark. And the old man's?To worms in their garden box; stepping asidea moment in a poem that will remember,fitfully, who made it and the discordand stammer, and change of heart and catch of breathit sprang from. A bending downlightly to touch the earth.
David Malouf
[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
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
Idries Shah
poems are small moments of enlightenment
Natalie Goldberg
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
Anne Sullivan Macy
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?
Tom Spanbauer
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
Wally Lamb
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
To follow Jesus today is to follow a madman according to the ideals of present day civilization. We have the idea that our civilization is God-ordained, whereas it has been built up by ourselves. We have made a thousand and one necessities until our system of civilized life is as cast iron, and then we apologize to the Lord for not following Him.
Oswald Chambers
The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.
Oswald Chambers
We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.
Oswald Chambers
People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.
Idries Shah
… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.
Idries Shah
Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, in the most threatening way imaginable: t‘O our Lord God, we most humbly pray…!’Real humility is not always the same as apparent humility. Remember that fighting against self-conceit is still fighting: and that it will tend to suppress it temporarily. It does not cure anything.Remember, too, that humility itself does not bring an automatic reward: it is a means to an end. It enables a person to operate in a certain manner.
Idries Shah
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers