The Ravenanda files 10.08.09

There are five principal types of spiritual teachers we can have access to in our lives. These are---ourselves or our own inner knowing or guidance, our parents or family of origin or whomever were our caretakers in our formative years, anyone we find ourselves in a serious interpersonal romantic relationship with, people who are "thorns in our sides" or who are for what ever reasons, a one time or constant and longstanding irritant in our lives and finally there are the guides, healers, teachers, roshis and masters who through some general consensus or other means are viewed as having some level of enlightenment or consciousness that allows them to be or to be perceived as one who can impart important wisdom. It has been my experience both in my own life and the life of others that in very many ways the most important spiritual teachers are the people who are irritants in our lives and that the least important teachers are the spiritual masters and guides. sage

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