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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.

Henry Miller : American writer
Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
 
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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.

Anthony De Mello : Gaia Child
Anthony De Mello
Source: Awareness
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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.

Byron Katie : Gaia Explorer
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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Byron Katie : Gaia Explorer
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Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence.

Byron Katie : Gaia Explorer
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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!

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Source: Lectures and Biographical Sketches[1883], "Education"
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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.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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If the Master doesn't stand in love and truth, then he is no Master.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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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.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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Attachment is the substance from which multiplicity is woven.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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The Guru is consciousness in action.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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Give of yourself what you want of yourself and then you will have what you desire.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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Spirituality is about dropping your previous behaviours and attitudes and adopting divine behaviours and attitudes so that the wheel of karma begins to stop.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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Your every action is a prayer.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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No man can have peace unless he gives peace.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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Love. Serve. Sacrifice. Surrender. This is the path.

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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A teacher cannot speak what he doesn't practice. 

Sri Swami Sai Premananda
Source: Sri Swami Sai Premananda
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 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.

C. W. Leadbeater
Source: The Masters And The Path
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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.

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi : Gaia Explorer
Shunryu Suzuki
Source: Crooked Cucumber
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We are all teachers and we are all students, and we must share our knowledge with each other.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
Source: ww
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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.

Brian Weiss
Source: www.brianweiss.com
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One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 

George Herbert : English clergyman, writer & metaphysical poet
George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/mothers.html
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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.

Warren Bennis : Gaia Explorer
Warren Bennis
Source: My diary
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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.       

Warren G. Bennis
Source: My diary
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When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

Byron Katie : Gaia Explorer
Byron Katie
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Fear is a great teacher.  It shows you what you still need to learn.

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

Swami Sivananda
 
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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.

Patrick Lee
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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.

Bruce Lee : Gaia Child
Bruce Lee
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