Quotes by Teachers - Page 26

Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.
P.C. Cast
...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.
John McGahern
Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.
Clare Morrall
We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.
Steve Hagen
The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them."The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism.
Steve Hagen
As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Idries Shah
Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it
Idries Shah
ScrapsThe scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil
Idries Shah
Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.
Idries Shah
A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)
Idries Shah
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
Idries Shah
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
Idries Shah
A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work
Idries Shah
It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.
Idries Shah
The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.
Idries Shah
If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.
Idries Shah
Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.
Idries Shah
The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.
Idries Shah
The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.
Idries Shah
One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.
Idries Shah
The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.
Idries Shah
The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.
Idries Shah
Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.
Idries Shah
If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.
Idries Shah
Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.
Idries Shah
SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.
Idries Shah
It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.
Idries Shah
If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.
Idries Shah
The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.
Idries Shah
Haste is from the Devil.
Idries Shah
One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...
Idries Shah
Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.
Idries Shah
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
Idries Shah
Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.
P.C. Cast
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
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
Oswald Chambers
A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.
Oswald Chambers
Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.5. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.
Julia Cameron
Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.
Efren Peñaflorida Jr.
And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)
Julia Cameron
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
Oswald Chambers
There is no fact, no detail of our life too sordid for God's intervention. God has seen murder. God has seen rape. God has seen drug addiction's and alcoholism's utter degradation. God is available to us no matter what our circumstances. God can find us in a crack house. God can find us crumpled in a doorway or cowering on a park bench. We need only reach out to discover that God reaches back. We are led a step at a time even when we feel we are alone. Sometimes God talks to us through people. Sometimes God reaches us through circumstances or coincidence. God has a million ways to reach out to us, and when we are open to it, we begin to sense the touch of God coming to us from all directions.
Julia Cameron
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
Oswald Chambers
God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
Julia Cameron
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
Wally Lamb
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...
Natalie Goldberg
See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly.
Joy Cowley
How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth
P.C. Cast
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
A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
Wally Lamb
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
Oswald Chambers
What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever.
P.C. Cast
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
S.N. Goenka
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland
Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
Bernard Beckett
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
Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite
P.C. Cast
Becky Renee Apple - can you believe her mom named her that and then had all of her sweaters monogramed with 'BRA'?
P.C. Cast
Easy. Peasy
P.C. Cast
Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?
P.C. Cast