Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 3)

Any, then, who accept the name of abbot or abbess should give a lead to their disciples by two distinct methods of teaching -- by the example of the lives they lead (and that is the most important way) and by the words they use in their teaching.
(From para. 3 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

The experience of the practice of meditation teaches me about authenticity. Growing little by little in self-knowledge, I feel that I become more truly myself, as God intended me.