"A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to."
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"Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists"
"Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life."
"A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr."
"If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus."
"Before you can make disciples, you gotta make sure you are one."
"Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path"
"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."