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mdehnersYesterday, I was over at our local aids org making sure all my paperwork was up-to-date. While there the subject of both support groups and conferences came up. Thing is, like ANYTHING you've done for yrs, you've "GOT IT", at least to the level needed in your life. Everything I've needed to say or have said to me has been more than a decade ago. I realised this also goes for one's Spirituality.
When you are a "young spirit";>, you're chatting, studying, travelling, etc. When you've reached a level of maturity....you're DOING not TALKING. I mean, you don't stop Learning but truthfully, those lessons are not going to be generally present(esp. today)on a list, group or whatever. And much of what you've learned over the yrs can't be transmitted until the person you're trying to teach has gone through enough to have the "vocabulary". In many ways I'm ashamed of my thoughts toward folks I now realize were further down the "road" than I and I simply didn't have the "words" to Understand what they were "saying".
It also means that at a certain point you can't be taught, you're teaching yourself. And often that means putting your Growth ahead of others, which in many cultures is considered "selfish". Luckly, I've never been a member of the "race to the lowest common denominator so everyone can be equal" worldview. This "attitude" has annoyed both people in my local aids community and some in my spiritual. Truth is, I taught "primary", "middle" and highschool" level classes in both for a couple of decades and I've done my "job". Now, I don't mind helping when asked(I actually appreciate it because it validates the decades of work I've done)but I'm Retired from Teaching.
Cheers,
Pat
When you are a "young spirit";>, you're chatting, studying, travelling, etc. When you've reached a level of maturity....you're DOING not TALKING. I mean, you don't stop Learning but truthfully, those lessons are not going to be generally present(esp. today)on a list, group or whatever. And much of what you've learned over the yrs can't be transmitted until the person you're trying to teach has gone through enough to have the "vocabulary". In many ways I'm ashamed of my thoughts toward folks I now realize were further down the "road" than I and I simply didn't have the "words" to Understand what they were "saying".
It also means that at a certain point you can't be taught, you're teaching yourself. And often that means putting your Growth ahead of others, which in many cultures is considered "selfish". Luckly, I've never been a member of the "race to the lowest common denominator so everyone can be equal" worldview. This "attitude" has annoyed both people in my local aids community and some in my spiritual. Truth is, I taught "primary", "middle" and highschool" level classes in both for a couple of decades and I've done my "job". Now, I don't mind helping when asked(I actually appreciate it because it validates the decades of work I've done)but I'm Retired from Teaching.
Cheers,
Pat
