Quotes by Teachers - Page 6

My color is my joy and not my burden...
Bebe Moore Campbell
Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.
Tom Spanbauer
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.
Julia Cameron
They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
Frank McCourt
……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.
Margaret Edson
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel
Konstantin Stanislavski
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ’s sake, and from no other motive.
Oswald Chambers
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Julia Cameron
The merciful Providence - or whatever power there is in the universe - has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It is a comfort to know that the waters close over us quickly. Only a few remember the splash and struggle, and fancy it important, really....I daresay we are making all this fuss for nothing.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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P.C. Cast
My cat is not insane, she's just a really good actress.
P.C. Cast
I've found that the 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
If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it the soil it needs, the amount of moisture, the amount of care, but we do not treat the apple tree as we would the pear tree or the peach tree as we would the vineyard on the hillside. Each is allowed the freedom of its own kind and the result is the perfection of growth which can be accomplished in no other way. The time must come when the same freedom is allowed the individual; each in his own way must develop according to nature's purpose, the body must be but the channel for the expression of purpose, interest, emotion, labor. Everywhere freedom must be the sign of reason.
Robert Henri
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
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
Idries Shah
I just have to do the right thing, and recently I've realized that sometimes the right thing seems crazy to those who don't want change.
P.C. Cast
He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...
Oswald Chambers
There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.
P.C. Cast
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
Robert Henri
He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.
Frank McCourt
A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.
Wally Lamb
I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started, but other times I feel like it’s not worth it. Sometimes I think I should work on my comic book idea, and then other times I want to work on a website, and still other times I think I should be working on this memoir. That’s a lot of thinking about writing without a whole lot of writing going on.
Sheila Hageman
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written
Julia Cameron
When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.
Julia Cameron
Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.
Julia Cameron
The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
Julia Cameron
Writing is a way not only to metabolize life but to alchemize it as well. It is a way to transform what happens to us in our own experience. It is a way to move from passive to active. We may still be the victims of circumstance, but by our understanding those circumstances we place events within the ongoing context of our own life, that is, the life we "own".
Julia Cameron
When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns us rather than about what we feel might sell, we often write so well and so persuasively that the market responds to our efforts.
Julia Cameron
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
Julia Cameron
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
Jack Gantos
There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt].'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked.Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.
John Flanagan
Don’t be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something—“I really want to be a writer”—then that little voice comes along, “but I might not make enough money as a writer.” “Oh, okay, then I won’t write.” That’s being tossed away. These little voices are constantly going to be nagging us. If you make a decision to do something, you do it. Don’t be tossed away. But part of not being tossed away is understanding your mind, not believing it so much when it comes up with all these objections and then loads you with all these insecurities and reasons not to do something.
Natalie Goldberg
Here I am," I say to the palm trees. "I can do this. Watch me.
Eileen Granfors
Writing is the act of discovery.
Natalie Goldberg
Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the literal term for "artist". I am suggesting you take the term "creator" quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artist with the Great Creator. Accepting this concept can greatly expand your creative possibilities.
Julia Cameron
Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.
Barbara Abercrombie
Writing... is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you...You don't only listen to the person speaking to you across the table, but simultaneously listen to the air, the chair, and the door. And go beyond the door. Take in the sound of the season, the sound of the color coming in through the windows. Listen to the past, future, and present right where you are. Listen with your whole body, not only with your ears, but with your hands, your face, and the back of your neck.
Natalie Goldberg
Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.
Julia Cameron
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
Natalie Goldberg
Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.
Enid Shomer
You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
Jack Gantos
I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.
Idries Shah
Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN
Eileen Granfors
A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep
Eileen Granfors
[F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate those of others – and … all creatures of a dynamic universe.
Steve Hagen
How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?
Steve Hagen
Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]
Steve Hagen
[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.
Steve Hagen
We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.
Steve Hagen
If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.
Steve Hagen
Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.
Steve Hagen
Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.
Steve Hagen
Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.
Steve Hagen
[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]
Steve Hagen
We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.
Steve Hagen
Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.
Steve Hagen
There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.
Steve Hagen
We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence
Steve Hagen