Huston Smith Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

  Huston Smith

  Teacher, Real, Special

  Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.196, Univ of California Press

• Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, West

• The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

  Huston Smith

  Teacher, Forbidden, Western

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