Please Look in the Mirror

Mar 25, 2014

Ever think about how incredibly dependent humans are? You can’t survive without near constant instruction for a very long time. We big-headed mammals need to be taught how to do everything from what’s safe to eat to how to tie our shoes. Shoot, we even have to be taught how to breastfeed!

You would have died without teachers.

And once the literal aspects of staying alive were taken care of, where would your career, your relationships, your art be without all the teachers who have offered you their diamond insights, just-right info, healing stories, and above all, witnessing of your talents?

Some of my teachers:
Dad:: “Never step on someone else to get where you want to go.”
Pema:: “Place your attention gently on the out breath.”
Lilly:: “Yes, mom, you can so stop saying you can’t.”
Mrs. Ray, my 7th-grade English teacher:: “You should be a writer.”

In the space of one inhale and exhale, think of all the people who have taught you something, offered you some tidbit of knowing… just this week.

Ready for the kicker? All those teachers who taught you? They did it out of love.

Love for you, love for the right way to boil pasta, love for success, love for wisdom itself. It doesn’t matter why. What matters is that so much has been given to you. Not because you earned it or deserved it. Just because often the world works that way.

Teaching is generosity in action.
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Wait, there’s more:

If you find yourself gobsmacked with gratitude for all the knowledge streaming to you, do so in front of a mirror.

Because you are one of those teachers that someone reading this would thank.

Look in the mirror and breathe that in.

Stand in the elemental truth that you are always a teacher and a student. If it makes your legs tremble, if you shake your head in wonderment, good.

We are all so lucky.

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Love,

Jen

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