“Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience… to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that ‘stand for’ things they see in the world around them… Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine… when children develop a passion for realism.

We’ve got a name for sushi in Georgia… bait

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially.

Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight.

Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.

The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.

The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don’t see the Taliban coming back in any way.

This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.

When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.