be my own teacher

This is so profound, as a goal. Often, I find myself looking for validation in outside authorities, as if I can’t really go in a direction, feel a certain way, or begin a project until I’ve found what the research or authorities have said. Knowing I can’t find anything outside me that’s not also INSIDE me helps, but it would be nice to go ahead and trust and follow that curiosity, that discovery method that guided us as children. Or, as The Charge of the Goddess puts it, ” ... know that your seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.”