Top 1200 Spiritual Teaching Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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)

Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life.

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.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

When anyone makes comments that are offensive to you, would you be willing to do the teaching?

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on the spiritual level as a yearning for another person. We want to reach out and stretch ourselves into the depths of another. We want to bring the other person into the orbit of our deepest selves. We want to probe into the mystery of the other.

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

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.

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.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

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 best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

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.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

... 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.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.