What Are The Characteristics of God's Teachers?

The next stage is indeed a "period of unsettling."

Now must the teacher of God understand that he did not really know...

what was valuable and what was valueless.

All that he really learned so far was that he did not want the valueless and that he did want the valuable.

Yet his own sorting-out was meaningless in teaching him the difference.

The idea of sacrifice...

so central to his thought system. had made it impossible for him to judge.

He thought he had learned willingness, but now he sees that he does not know what the willingness is for.

And now he must attain a state that may remain impossible for a long long time.

He must learn to lay all judgment aside and ask only what he really wants in every circumstance.

Were not each step in this direction so heavily reinforced, it would be hard indeed!