🚀 go-pugleaf

(I almost posted this to the 'short vs. tall' thread, but realized it
had veered back to the larger question)


bigus@ix.netcom.com (Bigus) wrote:


<snipping lots of comments to Richard's comments>


>One final note, to Steve, I don't have any secrets. The simple changes I 
>made were the ones I had heard a million times before, I just wasn't 
>ready to hear them. It is said that when the student is ready, the 
>teacher will come. This is because we are surrounded by teachers at all 
>times, but the student is seldom ready. So the trick is not to find the 
>ultimate teacher, the trick is to become the ultimate student.

>The insights I have found in the newsgroups have been quite remarkable. 
>Often the best teachers are those who seem most lost. The best insights 
>come not from the middle, but from the fringes or extremes, both 
>positive and negative examples. I see myself as being very much in the 
>middle.

>John

John, I certainly agree with Richard in seeing your posts as most
illuminating and well-considered...  but I know exactly what you mean
about writing for your own personal persuasion...  It seems I have all
these (possibly profound) thoughts in my head, but it is the
expressing of them that makes them 'real' (especially writing).  I
don't exactly find your posts 'alluring' as much as 'resonating' -
it's almost like I'm thinking them myself, but you saved me the time
of writing!  (And I'm not a very fast typist, thanks much!)

But I do have something to add..

Your mention of "When the student is ready, the teacher will come"
reminds me of a book I have read recently 'The Way of the Peaceful
Warrior' (I forget the author, I borrowed the book from a friend), as
well as my all-time favorite, 'Illusions' by Richard Bach...  These
books are about teachers that come into your (and my) life, to remind
us that everything that happens in our lives are due to the choices
that we have made...  it is scary and comforting at the same time,
because of the power and responsibility it gives me (and requires of
me)...  

This also resonates with another post in this thread:  Substitute the
word "won't" anytime you use the word "can't", and see how this
changes your prespective.  

Also, from yet another post: This 'affirmation' works only when you
are ready for it...  but it does work.


From a fellow wall-climber,

- John R.

P.S.:  For the 'Nice Guy' or 'Good Guy' who wants to know why he (or
she) should 'keep the faith', I also recommend 'The Road Less
Traveled', by M. Scott Peck.