“I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.” MeanProblemMightCultureIndividualLanguageCommunityWrittenEncountersRemarkableDeafDeprived Author:Oliver Sacks
“To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.” MeanOpportunityTeacherBlessingOceanUltimateSurfaceKarmaPassingPassingsEncountersReachingEnlightenedPassing ThroughSamsara Author:Frederick Lenz