Successful spiritual teaching should not involve idealization or devaluation

How to tell if a spiritual teacher is integrated and actually walking the walk or if they're just talking the talk? There's different hallmarks, but one of them is a willingness to be imperfect, a willingness to be flexible, a willingness to adapt to whatever scenario they are in. When you're around someone and you feel like they are so much better than you and you are so bad, that is usually a sign that you're idealizing them or they are agreeing to the idealization that you're putting on them. Successful spiritual teaching should not involve idealization or devaluation.

Hi, I'm Scott, a spiritual teacher guiding people through spiritual awakening by embracing our humanness.