Find Your Teacher

The poster says:  The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.  — Alexandra K. Trenfor

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Sometimes, the Universe plays tricks on us… or at least we perceive them as tricks.  We may decide that we will not take any more courses, and then a teacher comes along that we know we must work with.   Or, we may decide not to teach or mentor any longer, and a student shows up that we know we must work with, and coach.

I watch the process happen over and over.  It is a beautiful thing! It means that the Universe has a plan for putting the right student and teacher together.  It means that there is an advantage in moving forward as a team (student and teacher).  Synergies are created that let the student move beyond what they would have done by themselves.  And, the teacher has one more chance to leave a legacy. 

Blessings, 

Judy

About Moving

 

The poster says:  If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet…. —-Rachel Wolchin

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Everything is always moving, even if it seems to be standing still.  Even dying is moving; it is just not a way of moving that we in the west are comfortable with.   

Why is that?  We see movement all the time – on streets, in our kitchens, in the sky, on the internet.  We are born of moving parts because our cells are constantly replicating or dying.  

Moving is taking us forward, to a place we have never been.  Sometimes road maps and Google search do not help us in the “getting there”.  Where we are now is a place that we have never been.  It may seem like we have been here before, but, and it is a BIG but, we are not the same person that we were yesterday, so, we have changed.  Therefore, HERE is different.

It is a mind blowing concept to think that my desk is different today then yesterday.  My body recognizes the truth in this.

Blessings,

Judy

Change The Energy

The poster says:   I am another you.  You are another me. — Unknown

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..everywhere I look I see myself.  There I go: that bald man, this angry child, that fearful cat, that cool stone, that bubbling brook, that worm struggling for its life, that bird desperate to feed her hungry babies, that one trapped in his rage, this one anxious but fearful of finding out why.  Hardly strangers!  Empathy is the life of the soul, I think, because the soul that allows us to see the one in the other is the soul that finds joy.  Claudia Michele

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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.  Saint Francis de Sales

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We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts.  We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed.  Silence gives us a new outlook on life.  In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.  Mother Teresa

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Using an inspirational passage...helps to slow down the furious, fragmented activity of the mind so that we can gain control over it...Whatever we drive deep into consciousness, that we become...I usually recommend the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi: 

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. 
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.  

Eknath Easwaran

Blessings,

Judy