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He should ask himself whether he is attracted by the teacher's mind or body, whether he is devoted to the teacher's thought or flesh. If he can answer correctly he should grant that real discipleship exists only when the sense of the teacher's physical form is absent and his spiritual being is present. And this indeed is the case. The outer relation is only a beginning, a slight foretaste of the richness possible in this inner relation, this union of heart and soul. Then the disciple finds that the teacher's nearness to or distance from him is not to be measured in miles, is not an affair of what can be seen sensorily, but of what can be felt mentally.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 781