But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all bretheren.
Matthew 20:8
You can get someone to teach you things mechanical or scientific or mathmatical. But in things that really matter, life, love, reality, God, no one can teach you a thing...So put your books and formulas aside; dare to abandon your teacher whoever your teacher may be and see things for yourself. Dare to look at everything around you without fear and without formula and it won't be long before you see.
Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
A nurse told me that nurses are taught how to keep learning new procedures: watch one, do one, teach one.
The best way to find the combination for a lock is to have someone write it on a slip of paper for you.
But other things just aren't that way.
I went to a conference about the future of newspapers here in Denver last night. There are a lot of reporters and editors waiting for their next assignment.
God bless my Aunt Opal, who is being buried today in Amarillo, Texas.
"It is difficult/ to get the news from poems,/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there." William Carlos Williams, born this date in Rutherford, New Jersey (1883).
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