What am I teaching?

We are taught by the author of A Course in Miracles, "As you teach so shall you learn."  This is one of my favorite teachings of the Course.  Here is a quote from chapter 6 of the Text:

T-6.III.4. Since you cannot not teach, your salvation lies in teaching the exact opposite of everything the ego believes. 2 This is how you will learn the truth that will set you free, and will keep you free as others learn it of you. 3 The only way to have peace is to teach peace. 4 By teaching peace you must learn it yourself, because you cannot teach what you still dissociate. 5 Only thus can you win back the knowledge that you threw away. 6 An idea that you share you must have. 7 It awakens in your mind through the conviction of teaching it. 8 Everything you teach you are learning. 9 Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.

We are always teaching.  We teach by our words and example -- by our behavior.  It is also true that we are learning what we are teaching.  As the Course also says, "What you teach you strengthen in yourself because you are sharing it.  Every lesson you teach you are learning" (T-6.III.1:9-10).

In the CD set called "Walking the Path of Light," Robert Perry puts it this way:

1) Behavior expresses the beliefs that motivate it
2) It thus teaches those beliefs to others
3) By teaching those beliefs to others, it reinforces them within yourself. "What you share you strengthen" (T-5.III.3:5).

There are two questions that I like to ask myself from time to time that help me to assess my behavior -- two questions that I use as a form of meditative self-inquiry.  They help me to uncover the beliefs that are motivating my behavior.  They also help me to gently change my behavior if I see that it is not expressing beliefs that I value.

1) In this moment, what am I teaching?
2) In this moment, what do I want to learn?