“the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.”
― Lessons of the Masters
― Lessons of the Masters
“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”
― Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman
― Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman
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