The sequel to my article on “Acting as a Path to a Spirituality of Compassion.”
best regards,
ian
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On Teachers, Teaching, and Learning
by Michael Ian Lomongo, May 31, 2002
“When the student is ready, the teacher will come.”
In a previous essay that I wrote, I reflected on the spirituality of acting (and of any art for that matter) and the question of a possible incongruity between the excellence of one’s art (craft/skill/talent/competence) and one’s life (the great Art of one’s life). A friend commented that my question comes from the tendency to confuse two different realms, which may fortunately coincide, but need not do so. The level of a person’s artistic maturity is not necessarily an indication of personal (integral) maturity. Simply put, quite a number of Great artists can be real MAJOR-assholes.