Sufi Teacher Quotes

The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi. ~ Idries Shah

The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis. ~ Idries Shah

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony. ~ 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

Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise. ~ Idries Shah

Love The Way Love, Loves You ~ Syed Sharukh

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher. ~ Debasish Mridha

My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there. ~ Shreya Ghoshal

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. ~ Roger Moore

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives ... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe ... or even a pair of shoes.
Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe.
And I always will. ~ Donna VanLiere

Television: teacher, mother, secret lover.' HOMER SIMPSON ~ Marion Appleby

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. ~ Idries Shah

He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man. ~ John Williams

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week. ~ Mark Knopfler

Don't get me wrong. She's a good teacher as long as you don't get on her bad side. She absolutely hates my brother Bryce." he said as he continued to walk straight down the hall. He laughed. "She threw a ruler at him once. ~ Micalea Smeltzer

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it. ~ Matthew Quick

I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me. ~ Antony Hegarty

If the student is smart, the teacher takes the credit. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I believe I have stumbled on at least one possibility: if you are compelled to tell others virtually everything you learn from God, you might be a teacher! My friends who have other spiritual gifts can learn something from God without feeling the overwhelming need to share it with everyone they know. Not me! The second I receive the least spiritual insight or learn anything at all about the practicality of Scripture slapped on the hot pavement of real life, I want to make the world's biggest conference call. ~ Beth Moore

Anyone who doesn't respect a teacher or cherish a student may be clever, but has gone astray. ~ Lao-Tzu

Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together. ~ Katherine Paterson

I have always been interested in the way that elements of stories twine and combine. At school I had an art teacher, a great influence on me, who disliked man-made objects unless they were old and showed the effects of time and wear; she loved all natural things. I share this attitude and it plays a large part in my writing. I'm fascinated by the ambiguity of man's relationship to the huge, mysterious universe around him; how, on the one hand, we make ourselves little boxes and think to exist safely and snugly in them; on the other, we extend our knowledge further and further into the limitless void; and yet from time to time these opposites collide and produce astonishing results. ~ Joan Aiken

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. ~ Naomi Watts

Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent. ~ Nancy Pearcey

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit. ~ Maria Montessori

That's like telling an elementary schooler to ignore the bully giving him swirlies and pay attention to the teacher.' he said, stuffing graham crackers in his mouth. 'Hey Raven, do you want me to beat those geeks up? ~ K.M. Shea

A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. ~ Swami Vivekananda

There is no real distinction between who can and cannot be a teacher. All that matters is that this person should have knowledge of the subject matter, empath and compassion with others, and, above all, a great sense of humor which is the true mark of wisdom. ~ Charbel Tadros

He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me, ~ Alice Hoffman

The arrow-finger of life is problem. When we were young as aged as 5; who could bother you to take your own walk to the market? We were so novice that we never knew when our dad/mom's sweat hurted while in their eyes. All because they were facing life's problems to see us today.
Today the cup is on our table; hot. You wanna take it fast, it burns you. You feel like taking it slower, it detains you. What is problem? A life's teacher. ~ Godfrey Sunday Thompson

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple. ~ Joseph Goebbels

Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure. ~ Idries Shah

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.
It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF. ~ David Levithan

When it comes to training imams, one needs a partner. But if we want the mosques to preach peaceful coexistence, we will have to do something about it. One goal of the conference is to find a partner for the training of imams and teachers of Islam in schools. ~ Wolfgang Schauble

It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast. ~ Joyce Maynard

My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide. ~ Tad Devine

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual. ~ Frederick Lenz

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves. ~ Chris Van Allsburg

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures. ~ Laura Benanti

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. ~ Confucius

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school. ~ Robert Stromberg