It has produced in me a respect for my limitations and developed my acceptance of others. I feel I'm a co-learner. People bring different strengths and gifts to me and if we are able to work together, something beneficial might arise for us both. Sometimes I don't feel I have the skills to work with a particular person. I'm also not comfortable with the notion in some Buddhist schools that says teachers deserve special devotion.
Devotion is something everyone deserves.
No, it unfolds. I'm interested in relationships where there is mutual transparency. In working with dying people and people on death row, there's something about the directness of those individuals' lives that opens transparency. Part of that happened at Auschwitz. I felt the skin taken off my body and my heart.