07/08/2025
“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.”
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
We all want the next teacher, healer, body-worker or guru to help us feel better, healed and more whole.
However, the REALLY good teachers are the ones who facilitate a space and process so that YOU can discover and activate YOUR own teacher, facilitator and healer.
YOU have to do the work.
Only YOU can go inside of yourself and do what needs to be done.
Only YOU can unlock the key you keep searching for so frantically.
No one outside or yourself can do it for you, no matter how gifted they are or how much you want them to.
“Heal Thyself.” And I really mean that.
We can spend precious time, money and energy, even fly half-way around the world for the next teacher we hope will solve all our problems. But, unless they show us how to access our OWN inner wisdom, healing capacities and divinities, then all will be in vain.
And we’ll have to start the search all over again.
It’s fine to be inspired, informed, guided and shown the way, but in the end, YOU are the only one who can make the shifts you long for. Only YOU can follow your own path, as it’s from the inside out that true, deep healing and change takes place.
One of my favourites quotes from Jung is: "Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the human soul”.
And this applies to ourselves too: We can certainly learn from others, BUT we then must apply this learning in our own way, inside of ourselves, in the way that is uniquely right for us and us alone. We must touch the miracle of OUR own soul in order to truly heal and rediscover our soul; just as Jung himself did during his long period of inner-soul-work, which then became the basis for his work - not his theories and methodology.
And sure, teachers, authors and healers can certainly INSPIRE and INFORM us with new ideas, methods and approaches. But, it's only when they stimulate our own innate deep, inner-wisdom, creativity and self-healing capacities, that anything really shifts within us. When something deep within stirs in response to our teachers, THEN things can begin to really shift.
So, choose wisely and carefully, and be sure to choose the next teacher/guide/healer who is going to show YOU how to be all that you are seeking to yourself; because that is how you truly claim YOUR power.
Angela Dunning
The Horse’s Truth
www.thehoresstruth.co.uk
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