Guru's Handbook

An engaged student will embrace the study, see it as profound and important, a way to understand the world. They may make fast progress, inspiring you to give them more attention and direction.
What do you do when this same student suddenly hits a wall? I do not mean a physical injury or illness [...]

Your primary tool in teaching is you. To teach with depth and excellence, to teach matters of spirit and heart, you must use everything you have. Insight, strength, humor, triumph — use those. Also use weakness, mistakes, personal tragedies, and despair.
No dark corner of your heart or mind is irrelevant to your teaching. [...]

A map. A shovel. Courage. Resolve.
Our fears hide from us important and useful parts of ourselves. How do we find and excavate what lies behind fear?
You need a map. You need a shovel. To dig through what you may find, you need courage and resolve. And to pick up your [...]

Determine to study botany, and you will discover entomology plays an important part in botany. Determine then to study entomology and you will discover that insects and the soil of the land are intimately related. Such is the tapestry — the ecology — that is the study of the world: everything is connected.
And [...]