“There is a paradox in any helpful teaching. It is, you do not need any help. The extreme intelligence and infinity of life is fully established in you, as you. Any genuine friend [teacher] will help you understand this and make the teaching function redundant. Spiritual transmission occurs only in sincere friendship. The teacher is an equal friend, nothing more and nothing less. Without this quality the concept of a Teacher is an obstruction and the problem itself. In the mode of Respect for each individual the teacher impeccably deconstructs the persuasive and pervasive social model of inequality. This is the spiritual process. It leaves each person in his or her Ground as Life, in free unobstructed relationship with everything.”
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Mark Whitwell
(thanks, whitney!)
