“People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.” PeopleWantSelfEnergyForeverTeacherStudentsConceptsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryEnlightenedStringsGuruAbusive Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students.” WayTwoSelfDealsTeacherGroupsStudentsTypeDiscoverySelf DiscoveryEnlightenedEsoteric Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.” IfsWaySelfClassTeacherBuddhismCitizensEnlightenmentDiscoveryTreatsSelf DiscoveryRamaSecond Class Citizens Author:Frederick Lenz
“I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.” DoeSelfFunTeacherInspireBuddhismEnlightenmentDiscoveryMiracleSelf DiscoveryHave FaithRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.” PeopleSelfEnergyLosesTeacherInvolvedLosingDiscoverySelf DiscoveryMysticismEntityAbusiveLosing Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.” ProcessPracticeTeacherDemandDiscoveryDisappointmentEndlessDisappoint Author:Joko Beck
“I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I can't even remember her name now. I ended up going to boarding school for my last high school years and they had a dark room there. Of course there was curfew; you were supposed to be in bed at a certain time. But I would sneak out and sneak into the dark room and work all night.” YearsI CanMomentsSchoolLastsRememberNightCertainCoursesNamesDarkRoomsTeacherBedPhotographyHigh SchoolDiscoverySupposed To BeAll NightGreat TeacherSneakDark RoomCurfewSchool Years Author:Jeff Vespa
“Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.” MindProcessTeacherDiscoveryResponseUnexpectedMutualOpen MindPupilsKeep An Open Mind Book:Up the Down Staircase Source: Up the Down Staircase
“Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckhart accords with the real medieval teacher of that name, but there are certainly images in his work that help us work our way past several of the aporia with which we're confronted in our attempts to think about God.” ThinkingWayRealHelpingPastCertainNamesTeacherCenturyFiguresDiscoveryRelatedMedievalAccord19th Century Author:George Pattison