Who's The Wise Teacher?

"A wise teacher calls forth the strength and wisdom of the student.  When we are supported in this way we realize how much of spiritual life is our growing ability to give.  In this spiritual life, what finally makes us happy is not what we get, but what we can give, what we can give to a community and what we give or ourselves."

Boy, the more I explore and expand my spiritual program the more I believe that everything can be distilled down into smaller and smaller bits and pieces.  What am I learning?  That it's all about making the most of the moment I'm in, that living in the future or the past is a useless exercise.  That the more I think about myself the more miserable I am, that the act of giving, selfless giving is deeply satisfying.  That I should seek to love rather than be loved, comfort rather than be comforted, and - maybe most importantly - understand rather than be understood.  So if I'm living in the moment, thinking of others and what I can bring to them instead of what I can take from them, then I'm doing pretty good.

Now, I just need to stop thinking that I'M the wise teacher.