Sisters, brothers, take your time. Go slowly, listen deep inside yourself. Simple things are holy. Good teachers invite a diving in and wrestling with all that is available to us. It is a liberating experience and one where more than our own creativity is operating.
Teaching creates an environment where students are handed over to themselves.
Teaching from the heart is revering others in their wholeness and brokenness, in their joys and sorrows, in their contemplation and action. To revere is to recognize the sacredness of the educational process. Teaching at its best is a rich, honest transforming relationship. It almost defies description. Frederick May Eliot, when president of the American Unitarian Association, wrote, Only kindled souls can really do religious education, for they must lead children, youth and adults to the threshold of those great experiences which bring a feeling of the overpowering beauty, the majesty, the awfulness of the world in which they are living.