Teachers. I have had some of the best. A few life altering ones and so many others that to draw pictures of them all would require a Tibetan mandala with heroic intricacies.
Starting of course with my parents, my gentle child-like parents who were so unprepared for this world. Yes, even my mother, auburn haired demon goddess that she was, was too gentle for this world. My Parents showed me love. No two people could have loved each other more.
My children owe a great deal of my softer and most accepting side to my friend and teacher, Teamaker. Her immense patience and her beautiful soft ways taught me mothering of the highest order. After her came the Earth Mother who kept me grounded and helped me get a running start into the world of teaching. And then there was the Rose, whose Brooklyn upbringing and ex-nun status made her just perfect for kicking my butt into the world of spirituality.
My dear dear Shams brought it all together into a world of Rumi and Lao Tzu and T.S. Elliot. He showed me how to suck the juice out of every single second, to find the Love and stay in it no matter what. Because of him I have been places and done things so extraordinary and rich that even kings and popes and wizards would be jealous if they understood. He taught me how to find the still point and dance there forever.
I have been blessed by some of the most incredible teachers in this world and it appears that this is not going to end soon. Even now, high up here on a North Carolina mountain, I have met two new ones. One who you know as the Muse and one you don’t know, but who touches me almost daily with his remarkable perception, kindness and wisdom. He reaches out with an invisible hand and offers me the chance to join him in his ordinary pursuit of extraordinary goodness.
All good people, unbelievable human beings, who do what great teachers have done since time began. They teach by being, by living and working and showing me how it is done. They are the perfect manifestation of what a teacher should be…can be… is
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