TEACHERS OR MENTORS (PDF-1921)

They are not often the same thing. Mentors and life-experience guides have been the single most important factor in my spiritual education, perhaps because I systematically have been so difficult to educate. My mom told me that I even played hooky from kindergarten. They found me standing at the edge of a construction site watching the heavy earth-moving equipment.

And this learning disability started when I first went to public school. The school had concerns about my learning abilities, worried enough to call in my parents and talk to them about it. The result of those talks was that I underwent a series of tests to determine what my problem was. Of course, I had no idea what was going on. I was just a little kid.