Troublemakers

"The job of the spiritual friend is to insult you. If you ask why that is so, it's because in order to become a completely loving person, to become flexible, you have to see where you're hookable. There is a practice you can do which is called "heightened neurosis"... If you don't see where you get provoked, with an honesty and directness without guilt but just a straight look, where you get stuck, then you're always going to have that blind spot and it's always going to be there to drag you down. So if you really want liberation, if you really want freedom, you need to have people around who are going to be provoking you, to show you, where you have work to do..." Troublemakers.