I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

My mom is a history teacher, so we'd go on all these historic trips as kids around Halloween, because it was kind of creepy.

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