"To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred."

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Source : Peter Koestenbaum (1974). “Existential sexuality; choosing to love”

Peter Koestenbaum

#Mentor Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Mentoring Quotes

“Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.”
“I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.”
“I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.”
“As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.”
“I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.”
“Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package?”
“The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing ...”
“The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.”

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