…” A Real Master Is Not A Teacher , A Real Master Is An Awakener . His Function Is Totally Different From A Teacher ; His Function Is Far More Difficult , And Only Very Few People Can Stay With A Master Because To Wake Up After Millions Of Lives Is Not An Ordanary Feat ; It Is A Miracle And To Allow Somebody To Wake Up Needs Great Trust And Great Surrender . ” ~ OSHO
“Mary is not passive. The image we’ve been shown has truth in it, but it is a limited truth. I derived great comfort in the fact that Mary was an earthly mother, that she went through a pregnancy as a teenage mother, that she had known homelessness, that she had borne at least one child. She had witnessed that child’s suffering and death, she knew the depths of a mother’s sorrow. But Mary’s passivity may be all we’ve allowed ourselves to see. A woman rising up against authority, a woman strong and fearless, a ferocious woman, an independent woman, a heroic woman, a physically courageous woman – to have seen Mary this way would not have served the social order…This is a Mary we need now, a fierce Mary, a terrific Mary, a fearsome Mary, a protectress who does not allow her children to be hunted, tortured, murdered and devoured.” ~ China Galland Art: Sue Boardman ”Our Lady of Fierce Compassion”