James Fenton Quotes

If your idea of a guru is from a calendar, who has candy-floss beard and a constipated look on the face, then definitely I am not that.

In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that way. I am just a person.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

The wisest have the most authority.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.

Bill Belichick has been an awesome, awesome guy to learn from.

Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.

Experience is the highest authority.

Put faith in one who's had experience.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.