If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am aiming at…

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

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

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed