Time for some Merton

In our line of work as driving instructors, it is so important to cultivate the relationship with our pupil to develop an effective working relationship.  It is so easy to be distracted by a pupil who is obsessed with the driving test.  Thomas Merton is quoted as saying:

"Do not depend on the hope of results.  You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.  As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.  You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people.  In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything."