Be a good teacher first then a good student.
We know about the saying when the student is ready the teacher will come. Then he/she shows up. Why don't we start to be a good teacher ourselves instead of waiting for one? Who says the other person can teach us something we don't know. I believe we have it all in us. You just have to pull it out from your inner. Trust your instincts. I think that we are a gathering of lots of souls. Have you thought about those times when you were a kid and realized that you were not thinking or acting like the rest of your family. Could it be old souls of you that come up to the surface? Think about what happens when we die. The body is obviously for no use anymore how abut the mind or the soul. Would it be so simple that we just vaporises up in the air? We live and learn through the life and all the knowledge we collect shall that just be burned up?
Sorry I don't believe that. It is too easy to loose it. Where do we store it? That's a tricky question. The Professors etc says it is stored in the brain when we are alive but where is it when we die? Now we have to step out from the normal box and use our imaginations. Or the other hand is it important to know that? Regardless of where we store it I think it is. I also think it passes on in next life. How that is done I don't know either.
A lot of questions starts in you when you have a close friend or a relatives the past away. I have recently lost my former mother in law. She was very sick for many years and threatens us to die many times. But now she did. She said that she didn't want to stay anymore. We have to let them go. It is selfish to try to keep them with all kinds of medicaments and treatments.
Of course if they are not so ill we do what ever it takes to help them but if they are old and been severe sick for a while and also specifically asked for letting go. These are hard subjects to talk and write about but I think it is vital. When I saw the man in charge of the funeral bureau I asked him for papers to prepare my own funeral and what are necessary procedures around my death. He was very pleased to tell me and said it was a good idea. It is little late to think about it after so to speak. We also help the people, friends and families that are left behind. In that way we don't have to guess all the time of what and how the diseased person would like to have it.
Most of all the people left behind could be in the sorrow and moan until they are fine again. They don't have to stick to the paper work. So be a good teacher before looking for a teacher to your self. Teach people not to be afraid of being responsible for their own lives. Show the way for them. If somebody asks you if you are the teacher they have been looking for tell them they have it all in them selves. Encourage them to believe in them selves.