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Mentors helped mold Eboo Patel by giving shape to Patel's dreams and shedding light on the paths that the author might take to reach his goals. Working with mentors also gave Patel insight into diversity, and revealed worldviews previously hidden from everyday sight. Patel honors his mentors for their varied contributions to his intellectual and spiritual development. In Acts of Faith, Patel spends a great deal of time discussing his mentors because he also wants to show his readers that their success depends on the cultivation of deep and meaningful relationships with other people. Mentors are guides, teachers, and confidents. They can serve in the role of coach, by inspiring and cheerleading. Mentors can also offer constructive criticism when those in their tutelage need it the most.
Although Patel honors a plethora of people that inspired and motivated him to create the Interfaith Youth Core, he focuses on a select few who made a special impact on his character development. One of those mentors is Brother Wayne. "Brother Wayne Teasdale had two great hopes for me: that I would start an interfaith youth movement and that I would take mushrooms with him. He got one," (Patel 59). Perhaps more than any other mentor, Brother Wayne made a huge impact on Patel's personal path. At first, Patel was simply intrigued with the wacky Brother Wayne, who had a hippie New Age-infused brand of spirituality blending traditional Catholicism with Eastern mysticism. As their relationship deepened, Patel begun to realize that the qualities of interfaith fusion that Brother Wayne exemplified were the precise qualities he sought to manifest in his own life.
One of the reasons Brother Wayne became Patel's primary mentor was because Brother Wayne helped the young Patel develop a sense of personal identity. Prior to meeting Brother Wayne, Patel was inspired but lacked...
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