<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459806" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Teacher as healer: an observation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even before the question put, <br>they’re full of quiet attention; something <br>is already being listened to.. makes <br>that space, in which a question <br>may be floated on the air.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">tentatively perhaps, or self-concerned, <br>the question’s put; and listened to; <br>perhaps with gentle nod of head; <br>a keen attention; even a half-smile: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you and they are meeting now <br>in the fullness of the heart, in <br>a place that’s fully shared: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the teacher, almost eager, so it seems, <br>to hear more of your truth; <br>to hear the truth of you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as the question nears its end, <br>the answer floats upon the air <br>as if it and the question are but one; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the answer gently given, as if <br>already shared; not given, <br>not received; but already shared; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(and I saw: each time they said <br>the words ‘it is’, their spine <br>relaxed into a greater straightness..) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can describe that unity of mind - <br>as joy in stillness; or the bliss of peace? <br>Somewhere in the world of name and form, <br>something has been healed; <br>wholeness has returned to wholeness; <br>perfection taken, and returned; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the teacher, too, is still; <br>gifts of grace have been exchanged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459806" data-title="Teacher as healer: an observation de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Even before the question put, they’re full of quiet attention; something is already being listened to.. makes that space, in which a question may be floated on the air.. tentatively perhaps, or self-concerned, the question’s put; and li..."></div> </div> </div>

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