I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.
I was a teacher once.
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.
I'm a teacher, but I'm really a healer.
I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.
I am a student first, teacher second.
Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.
Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
