"Creative Life Writing" with Andrea Beard

You suppose you are the trouble

but you are the cure.

You suppose that you are the lock on the door

but you are the key that opens it.

It’s too bad that you want to be someone else—

You don’t see your own face, your own beauty.

Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.

~ Rumi

We may worry about death

but what hurts the soul most

is to live without tasting the water

of its own essence.

~ Rumi

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it.

                                       ~Kierkegaard