It is not necessary to announce, to yourself or others, what you are going to do.  The announcing takes time and energy that could be put towards doing.

 

Action expresses priorities

Gandhi

 

 

Neither do you need to make editorial comments to try to pound out a lesson to someone else.  Just say what you are inner-directed to say.  You never know what that will be.  It might be nothing. Sometimes what you say will surprise you. It will have a wisdom that you could never have fashioned.  You will never repeat yourself,  if you are coming from spirit, being inner directed.

 

 

Those who know do not talk 

Those who talk do not know

The Tao Te Ching

 

 

Forget about teaching other people nuggets of the conventional wisdom: get a degree and make more money, don’t marry someone of a different faith, practice makes perfect, money doesn’t grow on trees.  This is futile, friends. Give it up.

 

The only way to teach, after all, is by loving example. What you instill forcefully into their minds, you deny them the experience of getting for themselves. Your prompting only decreases what they can learn on their own.  You are standing in the way of the very thing you want.

 

The truth abides in silence