Allowing value
Openness, receptivity, a relaxed and welcoming face, Readiness to learn, fearlessness in a moment of change, Like all that we value, these are invited, not forced.
Openness, receptivity, a relaxed and welcoming face, Readiness to learn, fearlessness in a moment of change, Like all that we value, these are invited, not forced.
If I could teach anything, it would look like this: a student would leave the classroom more inspired, more open to life, more patient with the folding and unfolding of things, and less burdened by the trappings of self. But I don’t think it’s possible to teach anything of value directly, in the sense of making […]
It can be debilitating to feel the absence of choice: “I have no choice.” But while it is frequently true that the options we would prefer to have available are not present for us, this is not the same as having no choice; the truth, potentially much less harsh, is simply that we do not have every […]
When we are fortunate and able to work with thoughtful, warm, and mutually supportive people, we will quite possibly feel competent and able to contribute. Afterwards, we may notice that this is in contrast to how we often feel when trying to work with unseeing, unsympathetic people: weary, unable to contribute, and dull.
I’m a fan of failure. Well, not every kind of failure, but I’m certainly a fan of the kind of failure that makes it possible, one sip at a time, to experience fearlessness.