“It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.” IfsWorldShouldChildrenPersonsLightDarknessTeacherNiceLove YouFilledDancingEnlightenedUnusualLight And DarknessLiberatedLovableChildren PlayingVortex Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.” IfsThinkingMeanPurposeDarknessTeacherBuddhismOriginalsGuruRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.” KnowsFeelsEarthSexDarknessTeacherTreeCostElementsSixSacredMotherhoodRageTreatedContrastHumiliationOrangeMaliceHarpsSopranosMusic Teacher Book:The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd