“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.” KnowsMeanResponsibilityAcceptingGreaterTeacherOur LivesStreetsKingsYogaTasksEnlightenedHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.” ThinkingJobsSocialTeacherOur LivesCenturyWorkers21st CenturyFlexibilitySocial WorkerFoster Care Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.” UseChallengesResultsRolesStudyTeacherOur LivesStudentsNegativePrisonClassroomUse Of Power Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.” HelpingOpportunityTeachPracticeFocusTeacherOur LivesTeachingDevelopmentPercentYogaStressTransformationPrisonPrivilegeDeeperPersonal DevelopmentHelping OthersPrisonerNinetyAsanaDischargePersonal TransformationYoga Teachers Author:James Fox
“[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.” PeopleHumansDifferentLife IsHuman BeingsTeacherOur LivesJewExile Author:I. L. Peretz
“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.” IfsFirstsWellsMomentsLastsPastLiteratureCommonTeacherOur LivesReaderHusbandMy HusbandDisagreeOur PastLast WordsWorking LifeSimpatico Author:Dorianne Laux
“We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsDifferentForceChallengesTeacherOur LivesDrugAlcoholDependentGuru Author:Richard Bach
“Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.” KnowsWorldMaySaidWholeMemoriesFocusTeacherOur LivesWhole WorldRight TimeInfluentialSnaps Book:Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword) Source: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)
“We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.” PeopleTodayTeacherOur LivesInfluenceMinutesMediaPersonalityHeroShapesFameGood TeacherSportsmanSupermodel Author:Jonathan Sacks
“I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.” PeopleShowsTeacherOur LivesConvincedDespiseInfluentialResent Author:Wayne Dyer
“Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.” PeopleThinkingSchoolSpeakLanguageTeacherOur LivesGradesPoetry IsScarePassagesEcstaticSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolReciting Author:Erica Jong
“There are 4 types of relationships. We generally know people who guide and help us like a parent or teacher; those who need our wisdom or help like a child or student; people with similar knowledge and experience on our life path who want to offer unconditional support; and those who do not wish to support us.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsChildrenHelpingWishParentSupportPathTeacherOur LivesStudentsTypeOffersGuidesUnconditionalLife PathKnowledge And Experience Author:John Friend
“No reason to get angry at anybody for slapping you literally or figuratively. It's just nature unfolding perfectly and obviously that slap is part of my process that is shaping me as I become all I'm becoming. I'm sure this understanding will be a big help to us in our yoga practice and also as a teacher. More than anything though, it will affect the way we look at everything in our life, which affects how we respond to things.” WayLooksReasonHelpingBigsProcessUnderstandingPracticeTeacherOur LivesBecomingYogaAngryNo ReasonUnfoldingSlapYoga PracticeSlapping Author:Bryan Kest