soul service and teaching

"Service through stuff is very easy. Very easy. Because it doesn't touch your world, it doesn't change a thing, and it makes you feel good.... Service through empowering another person changes the situation. Because at this point you have to negotiate power not substance, but power.... It says I'm going to serve you now by telling you, you have gifts that you haven't touched and I'm going to help you develop those gifts because you were born to develop those gifts." Carolyn Myss

This is what teaching should be. Soul service: empowering people to recognize and have the courage to use their own gifts. Instead of creating power inequities and struggles, it is merely an act of inspiring and empowering. Simple but not easy. I'm not quite there but it is a guiding principle.