We begin by dividing the world into inside and outside. But wisdom, in the end, erases that line.
a) External. An external guide can be any person. At the beginning they are our parents, then our grandparents, brothers and sisters, and other members of the family. When we go out into the world and meet other people, they become guides too — our teachers, friends, everyone — whether we are aware of it or not. We also choose specific guides deliberately: tutors, psychologists, mentors, people we admire. We can choose people who are alive or dead, accessing the latter through their texts and videos.
b) Internal. We nourish our mind and spirit, and as we grow, we place increasing trust in ourselves. We learn to nourish ourselves so that we become trustworthy to ourselves. But we also learn that the source — God — is part of us, and we are part of it. This leads us to see the external guides as part of the same whole. We make the external internal, and the internal external — because we see ourselves in others, and in ourselves we see others. Then we understand that we are the same. We are the whole.






