I write this post from sheer experience.
Not as an answer, but as experience.
Being brought up to doubt my own inner wisdom and guidance, I constantly looked to others for guidance. In doing this, I learned some very difficult lessons.
1. How a person acts in the world, what their true nature and motives are is very important when looking to someone as a guide or teacher.
Many teachers may know the words or concepts, but have not fully grasped them, embodied them.
2.If someone has not mastered what I want to learn, how can they teach me?
3. Many teachers have some part of the puzzle so to speak, say a meditation teacher who is able to teach me techniques to reach a certain level of consciousness, but they still have not reached the ultimate level that I want to reach. How do I know that their technique will lead me where I want to go? It may just be a diversion, or even set me on a completely different path away.
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