Zitat des Tages über Schüler / Disciple:
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.