Quotes About Development

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Learning without action is like wax without honey. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development.

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible.

These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis.

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

De acuerdo con los sufis, existe una sucesión de experiencias, que en conjunto constituyen la maduración educativa y evolutiva del estudiante. La gente que piensa que cada logro es la meta misma se congelará en cualquiera de tales etapas, y no podrá aprender por medio de lecciones sucesivas y sustitutivas.

Sandalias. Al maestro sufi Ghulam-Shah se le preguntó qué patrón utilizaba al formular sus cursos para discípulos. Dijo: "Descalzo hasta que puedas obtener sandalias, sandalias hasta que puedas valerte de botas".

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.

Las personas de este mundo tienen un destino fijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que 'no' está en su destino.