Teachers

Throughout life, we are blessed with opportunities to meet people who will enrich our lives with their words and actions. They become sources of knowledge and inspiration as we move through this journey called life. Some of these people have been helpful guides, others have been sources of encouragement, and then there are a few that inspire us to seek out the way things really are and what we can become. If you have been fortunate enough to have people like this in your life, learn from them and absorb their teachings and actions as you strive to become what you can become.

In honour of my "teachers", I wish to list their names so as to acknowledge my gratitude and profound admiration for their assistance and inspiration. Life is one big classroom and to help another person by providing knowledge, guidance and compassion is each person's responsibility – it is a mitzvah (a special and devine blessing). 

If I am just for myself, what am I – if I am for others, I have accepted and achieved my responsibility as a human being. In other words, don’t just live life, but become life and thrive, pursue, and achieve. Movement is transformation of the spirit for the benefit of the greater reality and an understanding of the way things can actually be. Stagnation is contrary to the laws of the life.

In the end, if I have made any kind of significant contribution to this world and its progress, then it is because of these individuals that I wish to thank.

Alvin R. Mahrer (Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Heinz & Rowena Ansbacher (Psychology)
Kurt Adler (Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Alexandria Adler (Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Harold Mosak (Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Robert Sherman (Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Oscar Christensen (Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Liliane Bensinger (Adlerian Psychology)
Jack Hirshberg (Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Ira Robinson (Judaism & Christianity)
Leslie Orr (Buddhism & Hinduism)
Norman Ravvin (Canadian Jewish Literature)
T.S. Rukmani (Buddhism & Hinduism)
David Miller (Buddhism)
Fred Bird (Methodology & Ethics)
Howard Joseph (Judaism)
Michel Despland (Methodology & Christianity)
Richard Foltz (Islam)
Marc desJardins (Buddhism)
Susan Palmer (New Religious Movements/Cults)
Stan Asher (Literature, Jewish History)

To my friends Robert Sapienza & Jean Pouliot

My Dad & Mom - Louis & Evelyn Gontovnick & brother Norman

My Family - Linda, Lisa, Josh & Puppers


Written by Howard Alvin Gontovnick

                  
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