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Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can__ wear her smiling face to the platform. You__e got to put that smile on your own face.

When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -""Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked."We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!

When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.