For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

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

Everybody is on a lifelong journey toward trying to live more deeply. There is nobody who can say, "Well, I've got that one checked off my to-do list." We have to be honest with ourselves about where we are on this journey and about the difficulty of living in our own identities and integrity.

Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.