The job of a spiritual teacher is not to be a philosopher, but a gourmet cook. A gourmet cook has the ability to bring the taste out of every ordinary cabbage, every simple bean sprout... In addition to being a gourmet cook, a spiritual teacher has to be an optometrist. Most human beings are born with perfect vision, but after a certain number of years, most people commonly develop problems in seeing. So you go to the optometrist, and you sit in a special seat, and the optometrist puts lenses of various strengths in front of you, trying different ones until you can see the chart clearly. All he is doing is trying to do is to help you see what's there. By giving you the right lenses, the optometrist enables you to see what is. One of the lenses is the lense of wonder. When you put on the lens of wonder, suddenly you can see Hashem, Who was there all along. So my job as a spiritual teacher is to put some wonder into your way of seeing.
— David Aaron, Seeing God