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November 2009 
What would you most like to teach?
Posted on Oct 29th, 2009
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rudyan
rudyan
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 27, 2009:
I would most like to teach others to love, to honour, and to forgive themselves. I would like to teach it because that has been key to turning my own life around.
How will I teach this? By walking the talk. Can there be a better or surer way?
How will I teach this? By walking the talk. Can there be a better or surer way?
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Walk the talk! That's all we can really do. The rest are, truly, just words. :)
Kathy! This (your quick response) was almost like making a phone call and having the person you're calling pick up even before you hear it ring. :)
Well, words have their place too, but silence would be preferable if we can't 'prove' the truth of them by the way we live.
And having said that, I find that sometimes I'll write something (a blog, perhaps) and then have that thing I wrote keep pointing at places in my 'walk' that don't match up with the 'talk'. I love that! Love the way life supports me and supports me in every way.
Thanks!
Ruth
I would like to teach/remind people that creativity is their joy, their wonder,their opportunity to surrender up negative thinking and see the world as creative place to make creative change. I would like to remind people that finding their joy allows them to see joy everywhere. And that it is at all times
available. there is not a time that goodness, pleasure, kindness and joy is not a breath away.
Yes, that too. I would like to teach how being in awareness changes the world; how just a simple thing like getting off the doggedness of a 'right' position opens up universes; how accepting ourselves the way we are not only frees us up to accept others as they are, but initiates in ourselves the kinds of changes we had despaired of. I would like to teach everything that I have learned through a lifetime of struggle and resistance.
And I can speak the heartfelt words that run through me, but whether people learn from them still depends on their journey and on where they're at, and perhaps most of all, on whether I who speak am a living example of what my words are asking them to consider.
Example is one of the best teachers, along with experience…Thanks for the reminder :-)
Thanks, it's something I have to remind myself of time and time again.
And for sure, it's hard to be an example without experience. :)
I am curious rudyan how do you go about teaching these things to others?
Jacques,
By speaking the truths I have arrived at from living through whatever has come my way; by sharing what worked in my case, and always stressing that what worked for me may not be what works for others, as no two journeys are alike, even though there may be similarities.
By not preaching, but sharing my experience.
By making sure that I live in such a way as not to get in the way of my words.
So perhaps the most important thing of all to teach is this: that every single person has a unique path in life; that noone else can determine it for them, or live it for them, or set them on their path.
My point, my highest concern in all this, is to be authentic, to 'walk the talk': if I'm living my truth, others hearing my message will not be distracted from the message by the messenger.
Thanks,
Ruth