"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.