When the student is ready the teacher appears. How many times have I repeated this wise phrase? But to see it anew is another. To be teachable and open to seeing the teacher arrive is the great gift. Robert Henri, the legendary art lecturer, taught, in his wonder of a book, The Art Spirit, that there are two kinds of people in the world: students and non-students. True. It has always been so easy for me to tag others when I meet them as open or not. This week I am startled at the grace that has chosen me and enabled me to see my own smug self, the resistant self, the know-it-all one. "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." How simply brilliant!
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