Swami Vivekananda quote: “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but yo…”

“No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

1st Public Talk, Bangalore, India (30 January 1971)
1970s

“I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.”

Gregory Colbert (1960) Canadian photographer

"Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding in The New York Times (22 April 2002)

“You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

“I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

Quote from an interview on the NBC television program, Wisdom- A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright (1953)
Context: I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course.. but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

“Nobody can tell you that you are content until you feel it in your own heart. When a heart is okay, then it’s a heartfelt feeling and you know it. Not by the virtue of somebody having to tell you this, somebody having to explain you this, but it comes from the feeling of the inside. Knowledge works from the inside out, not from the outside in. Your own experience is the only thing that’ll satisfy that thirst.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Rome, Italy August 22, 1985
1980s

“I didn’t realize that in truth what makes you a good teacher is really living your own practice, and living it so much that you request it to other people. Ultimately, everything you do that you teach someone else is something that you’re working through to teach yourself, and that practice of really digging within yourself, it feels like having your soul cracked open.”

Jessamyn Stanley (1987) American yoga teacher and author

Source: Jessamyn Stanley is fighting for radical visibility and yoga for every body, Samantha Grasso, Aug 28, 2018, 2018 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/jessamyn-stanley/,

“But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Arlington, Virginia September 8, 2009
2009, School speech (September 2009)

“As you grow spiritually, you will find yourself teaching more as you learn more. Your learning and your teaching will take place even in your sleep.”

Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) American Hindu writer

Source: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume I: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena (Hari-Nama Press, 1996), Chapter 1: Dreams: A State of Reality, p. 26

“I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course.. but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

Quote from an interview on the NBC television program, Wisdom- A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright (1953)

“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

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