Quotes About Wisdom

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Experience is the best teacher.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

It's smart to marry your yoga teacher so when you get divorced you know how to go down on yourself.

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!

Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

At our best, we are all teachers

In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.