“Teachers are needed. But teachers cannot be produced for the spiritual pilgrimage of prayer as we can teachers for our schools within two or three years. The teaching involved is not comparable to any other form of teaching or technique of training. It is not a question of taking a course in techniques of prayer, or attending seminars on spirituality. The means, context, style and presentation are all in the power of the Lord Jesus, the Teacher within. But the teachers-in-community are in a real sense the channel for this power in the initial stages of growth. What they need is the actual experience and knowledge of being on the pilgrimage themselves and being led thereon by a power within and beyond themselves. It is rather expressed as an absence rather than a possession, an unlearning rather than a skill.”
(John Main - 'Community of Love')