Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about the absence of other people -- it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others. Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other. It is not about the presence of other people -- it is about being fully open to the reality of relationship, whether or not we are alone.

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.