He fills the disciple with wisdom and sets his soul aglow, so that one day the disciple can re-ignite the flame in many more.
What you do when no one is guiding you determines who you are.
Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.
Exit the land of delusion where falsehood lives like a king. Let the bridge of faith take you places where your caged soul can take wing.
I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight
1. Do what you say you're gonna do 2. Show up! 3. Give genuine praise whenever you can 4. Never say sorry when you don't mean it 5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use the corny ass emoticons)
Love is all that awaits you.
Once you understand nature, you’ll understand everything perceptively.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
I can talk to anyone who understands art.
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.
يظن الغمر أن الكتب تهدى ... ... أخاً فهم لإدراك العلوم وما يدرى الجهول بأن فيها ... ... غوامض حيرت عقل الفهيم إذا رمت العلوم بغير شيخ ... ... ضللت عن الصراط المستقيم وتلتبس الأمور عليك حتى ... ... تصير أضل من 'توما الحكيم
To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.
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.
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, empathy and compassion with others, and, above all, a great sense of humor which is the true mark of wisdom.
Without wisdom, a teacher is nothing more than a research paper: a knowledge filled text which is boring and has no practical use. With wisdom, a teacher is like a great novel: a text filled with knowledge, practical applications and, above all, fun.
The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Awareness and compassion are the flower and the fragrance of the spiritual teacher. Compassion means living to give.
Shraddha, loving trust, is a spiritual discipline in itself between the spiritual teacher and student.
Without trust between the spiritual teacher and student it is not possible to attain to no-mind, because to attain no-mind needs trust.