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"A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher."
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"I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it."
"Bhikkhus, the teaching is merely a vehicle to describe the truth. Don't mistake it for the truth itself. A finger pointing at the moon is notthe moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the moon itself, you will never knowthe real moon.The teaching is like a raft that carries you to the other shore. The raft is needed, but the raft is not the other shore. An intelligent personwould not carry the raft around on his head after making it across to the other shore. Bhikkhus, my teaching is the raft which can help youcross to the other shore beyond birth and death. Use the raft to cross to the other shore, but don't hang onto it as your property. Do notbecome caught in the teaching. You must be able to let it go."
"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."
"The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."
"I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something."
"To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles."
"I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and verses from hymns, so that they would know them and the words would stay with them throughout their lives. The aim of my teaching was to bring to their hearts and thoughts the great truths of the Gospels so religion would have meaning in their lives and give them the strength to resist the irreligious forces that might assail them. I also tried to awaken in them a love for the Church, and a desire for that hour of spiritual peace to be found in the Sunday service. I taught them to respect traditional doctrines, but at the same time to hold fast to the saying of Paul that where the spirit of Christ is, there is freedom."
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"If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method."
"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
"Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means."
"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."
"Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity."
"When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it."
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