Top 1200 Spiritual Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two capacities come together. That's why Nephi could say, 'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7). He knew the spiritual laws upon which inspiration and power are based. Yes, God answers prayer and gives us spiritual direction when we live obediently and exercise the required faith in Him.

Too many of our teachers are working multiple jobs - and it's still not enough.

Some teachers used to worry and ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?'

It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.

In my school, racism was ubiquitous and unrelenting, and not just from the pupils. For a year I was terrorised by one of my teachers.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Concealed in every new situation we face is a spiritual lesson to be learned and a spiritual blessing for us if we learn that lesson. It is good to be tested. We grow and learn through passing tests. I look upon all my tests as good experiences. Before I was tested, I believed I would act in a loving or non-fearing way. After I was tested, I knew! Every test turned out to be an uplifting experience. And it is not important that the outcome be according to our wishes.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

After completing school, I shifted to Mumbai in 2007. I started training under different teachers.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a great influence outside of her organization. … The importance of Theosophy in modern history should not be underestimated. Not only have the writings of Blavatsky and others inspired several generations of occultists, but the movement had a remarkable role in the restoration to the colonial peoples of nineteenth century Asia of their own spiritual heritage.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

If you have a problem or desire a healing, try this exercise before falling asleep. Catch yourself at that point just before you fall asleep - between waking and sleep. Imagine bathing yourself with the healing orange light. You then can ask the Inner Master to help you regain spiritual balance by saying, "If it's for the good of all concerned and doesn't interfere with my spiritual growth, would you please heal me?" Then holding that thought, drift into sleep.

A person's school and teachers help lay a strong foundation, which leads to success.

Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif of spiritual warfare is a through-line of both the Old and New Testaments (NT). And in the NT, the meaning of what Jesus was doing in his life, ministry, death and resurrection is fundamentally tied up with the belief in spiritual warfare. Take away Satan, and you take away one of the most fundamental reasons Jesus came to earth!

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.

Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

I can legitimately say without being arrogant that there's probably a stretch where I was one of the better teachers of improv in the country.

Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.