Perfect Teacher Quotes

• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

  Pema Chodron

  Disappointment, Buddhism, Irritation

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Disappointment, Irritation

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age . . . [so that] he might be the perfect teacher in all things, perfect not only in respect to the setting forth of truth, perfect also in respect to relative age

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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• Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son. He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in out lives. He is the perfect teacher or coach. His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs. He never overtrains by allowing too much adversity into our lives.

  Jerry Bridges

  Teacher, Adversity, Son

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• Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Teacher, Teaching, People

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• This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Irritation, Perfect

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• Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.

  Byron Katie

  Teacher, Mistake, Work Out

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

  Angelina Love

  Spiritual, Teacher, Healing

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