2 posts tagged “relationship”

Teachers' Survival Guide, Marsha Jane Orr, Intrepreneur Coaching (2009)

Excerpt:
ALLOWING:

Resistance creates the opposite of my intended result.*



Allow whatever is.


Come instead into blessing and thanksgiving for this exquisite opportunity to demonstrate my mastery.


I find my way by breathing deeply and turning toward what I am seeking to create.


Where I place my attention expands. I focus upon that aspect where love resides and move there.


* Contemplations throughout are derived from The I Ching, Book of Changes, The Richard Wilhelm Translation, (1950) Bollingen Series
XIX, Princeton University Press.

What would I say, to ruminate, to share—a journey’s hundred days in a lifetime of one? There were a swarm of bees at our school on this one. The children were warned to stay away. Many are allergic to bees. I myself would have gone to look, but distractions kept me away. And, more honestly, fear. It is like that sometimes with the most important things of our lives: we look away, don’t act, despair, or pretend, the very thing , the one thing, the only thing, isn’t at all what we seek, but instead its mere likeness. I saw a picture of a bee in a book there at the library. It just wasn’t the same.