
“There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.”
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 18, “The Talleyrand Maneuver” (p. 275)
Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 5 “Kiss the Blade” section II (p. 136).
“There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.”
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 18, “The Talleyrand Maneuver” (p. 275)
Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 126
“I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.”
Civil Disobedience (1849)
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
"Angel Surrounded by Paysans" (1949)
Context: I am one of you and being one of you
Is being and knowing what I am and know.
Yet I am the necessary angel of earth,
Since, in my sight, you see the earth again,
Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set
And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone
Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings,
Like watery words awash; like meanings said
By repetitions of half-meanings. Am I not,
Myself, only half a figure of a sort,
A figure half seen, or seen for a moment, a man
Of the mind, an apparition appareled in
Apparels of such lightest look that a turn
Of my shoulders and quickly, too quickly, I am gone?
“You know that you are a human being, and I know that I am the Avatar. It is my whole life!”
To Paul Brunton in 1930, as quoted in Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba, Manifestation, Inc. 1986, by Bhau Kalchuri, p. 1349.
Lord Meher (1986)
“Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies