Quotes About Guidance

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice

How can schools educate students if they fail to support the teacher's inner life? To educate is to guide students on an inner journey toward more truthful ways of seeing and being in the world.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and does -- maybe more.

Way has never opened in front of me…but a lot of way has closed behind me, and that has had the same guiding effect.

La angustia es una compañera tan antigua. Quizá no sea la compañera más agradable del mundo, pero es una buena consejera.

Wisdom—the wisdom of God—is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom (Proverbs 4:7).

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome PhD

The evidence should guide you to a theory; you should not be allowing the theory to guide the evidence upon which you focus.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

Leadership plays a significant role in creating culture.

Leave your heart open to Divine guidance, not passively as a leaf upon the river, but as a navigator on that river who may flow with the lovely depth and swiftness of the current yet who also takes responsibility for his own craft.

Be led by your joy.

Art is my spiritual path.... Art is my prayer, my ritual, my remembrance of the Divine. Art is the way I knit together the beliefs and practices that guide my life.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.

Every boarding party needs its guide to light the way, its wizard to defeat the magic and a tank that kill everything that tries to stop the party. The tank is not sacrificial.

but his instincts were instilled a long time ago. You are going to have to help him with that and be patient with him.

When you're sixteen, sometimes you need the adults in the room to step in.

Instinct," he told her, "is most often right.

I have noticed that people who listen to their instincts live longer.

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.