Kate Horsley Quotes

United States, Author
1952

Kate Horsley is the pen name of Kate Parker, an author of numerous works of historical fiction, three of which are rooted in the Old West. Parker is a professor of English at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. She has had a lifelong flirtation with Zen after reading Alan Watts.

Also known as Professor

Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.

Kate Horsley
Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

Kate Horsley
- Justice
- Teacher
- Body