I can only point out what I find beautiful and then attempt to walk in that direction.
I do not want to be controlled, manipulated or reasoned into anything and I do not want that done to me. This is one of the fears I have around diet and diet culture, so I have a few protection mechanisms that may help guard me against manipulation but I also fear these guards puts walls around people I could trust, if I just let them in.

1. Does this person have a financial incentive to share what they are sharing?
2. Is what they are sharing something I have access to and am able to use without them ever being a part of it?
3. Are they living according to what they are sharing?

1) Finanacial incentive

I don’t know if this is unfair or unattainable living in a city/financially structured society. I want to be able to share and help people, I want the enjoyment of seeing their successes through what they are practicing. Some of what I have practiced has helped me feel better, many of those things I did in silence since I was so wary and I also didn’t want to try and fail in front of someone. I was also scared that failing in front of that person that they would manipulate me in that vulnerable state of failure, push me to keep going, that there’s nothing wrong with the practice just me, my mentality, physical ability etc. During times like these today I lean on a paraphrased quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

• “Mindfulness for half a second at the breath is still beneficial” Thich Nhat Hanh

That is the kind of teacher I want. I want the practice to be so clearly beneficial that no matter my percieved effort or lack there of in scale, intensity or other is still worth it.
I also want to be able to practice it alone if I wanted to, although today I want to practice with people.

The ideal doctor

I do believe that Hippocrates or the ideal doctor helps those who need help. I do believe the ideal doctor has empathy and will do whatever he can to relieve suffering if able. The only payment for his help is the relief that there is less suffering since empathy cannot bear it.

2) Sharing, giving or something else

How free am I with what I’m recieving?
Can I use this information as I please?
Does it keep me bound in any way to the one who shared it, someone or something else?
How free does it make me and can it help others in any way?
There isn’t much more I think I can add, I’d just like to point out the parallel to the 4 foundational freedoms of what makes a libre (freedom respecting) software:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Libre software

One of the beautiful ideals that I’m drawn to is libre software, freedom software. If the future will contain more virtual reality I feel it’s even more important for software of any kind, including games to be libre.
When a person puts a VR headset on that the software respects the user’s freedom and that the user isn’t being used by the software, being trapped by programmatic behavioural traps that cue addictive behaviour etc.

3) Living what they believe

I am still practicing all the things that I care about, sometimes I doubt how much they are helping me… I may try something else or test to see if something causes me pain or not or if it still does if at some point I was certain it did.
Do I recognize the pain that this person has gone through?
Do they or have they dealt with the same doubt as me?
Do they hold a dream of a future I want to walk with them towards?

Eden

• Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; source
  Genesis 1:29

• “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
  Hippocrates

Before there were stoves we ate whatever we could in its natural form, whole foods. Before we had weapons we ate what looked appealing and appetizing, again, in its raw form.
I do believe there is such a thing as the ideal meal for any person in any state, sometimes that meal may be the lack of a meal. But where this comes from is really this:
Do I believe there is such a thing as a species specific diet?
Do I believe there is such a thing as a person specific diet?
If so, what do they specifically require and where can it be found?
Is this person specific diet permanent or can it change and if so will it resemble more the species specific diet or deviate away?
Sometimes I get sick and need something specific to help with my ailment, I may need something specific for a time and I hope that my medicine will be my food.