"You can make a lot of progress spiritually on your own but you can make better and faster progress with a teacher or one or more than one teacher.”
"For me becoming a minister was all about sharing my call, my spirituality with others.
Basically showing them that what I was experiencing was real.
Living just in your head is dangerous.
We have to be willing to expose ourselves to examination and discernment.
Not in an artificial way but in a deeper way.
It takes a lot of courage and it also takes a tremendous amount of stamina to do it again and again."
"There is a certain piece which is that is if you claim to be spiritually advanced it’s something you have almost a responsibility to share.
But you want to be sure that what you're sharing is good.
It’s not just something you made up in your head because you were stoned on weed.
The inner journey exploring our past, from my perspective, is done most profoundly with a therapist, which is also a kind of teacher."
"[The person you learn from] can be an informal teacher.
I think the best of what we do almost always involves a teacher somewhere along the lines."
