Quotes about Teacher

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That’s the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I’m going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don’t, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on Earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher.

You’re the one.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

The true Master seeks nothing. He only gives. The true Master does not charge for his presence, wisdom, grace and love. It can be likened to a mother charging her newborn for mother's milk.

If the Master doesn't stand in love and truth, then he is no Master.

Satsang is the greatest of all spiritual practices. Always be in the company of the realized teacher, the Master. Always be where the truth is being spoken and where the holy books are being read. The wisdom is being shared in these places. You'll see that some topic of wisdom will be important for you that day. It will help you on your spiritual path. Because of hearing these truths, your mind will open to a whole other level of consciousness.

What is your God? It is the thing that is of greatest importance in your life; the thing that you are most concerned with; the thing you spend the most time with.

Attachment is the substance from which multiplicity is woven.

The Guru is consciousness in action.

Give of yourself what you want of yourself and then you will have what you desire.

Spirituality is about dropping your previous behaviours and attitudes and adopting divine behaviours and attitudes so that the wheel of karma begins to stop.

Your every action is a prayer.

No man can have peace unless he gives peace.

Love. Serve. Sacrifice. Surrender. This is the path.

A teacher cannot speak what he doesn't practice. 

 The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

We are all teachers and we are all students, and we must share our knowledge with each other.

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.       

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

Fear is a great teacher.  It shows you what you still need to learn.

This world is your body.
This world is a great school,
This world is your silent teacher.

I was encouraged from the beginning to see the Earth as the best teacher and in addition was taught the old Gypsy arts of surviving the gaujo [non-Gypsy] world, much of which involved surviving the world outside your door emotionally.

A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.
A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability (and) causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.