There's a section I really quite like and think of often at the end of chapter four of "Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing": "And in life there is no visible teacher who encourages the good pupil, for we are all pupils. If the good pupil keeps on, he must find the encouragement in himself." Wise, and difficult, as always. But I do think that having had good teachers and good supervisors, whose voice carries through with us into our "encouragement to keep going" is so important. And of course, SK's own upbuilding discourses, on the way to that encouragement..
There's a section I really quite like and think of often at the end of chapter four of "Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing": "And in life there is no visible teacher who encourages the good pupil, for we are all pupils. If the good pupil keeps on, he must find the encouragement in himself." Wise, and difficult, as always. But I do think that having had good teachers and good supervisors, whose voice carries through with us into our "encouragement to keep going" is so important. And of course, SK's own upbuilding discourses, on the way to that encouragement..