height of his powers?

A:  Well, he loved pronouncing upon things. And 
when people came to him and said, “Marshall, you 
are a guru,” he said existentially, yes I am a guru 
and I will be a guru and I will respond like a guru. 
And that’s pretty seductive stuff. And, in fact, he 
was damn good at it. What else does a guru do? He 
gives you poetry to deal with, which happens to be 
spiritually oriented rather than the give and take 
of daily communications. But yes, he loved to have 
people sit at his feet and often he himself was 
prone while they were doing so. As you know, he 
used to do a lot of his teaching from a reclined