A fresh look at the pebble: is it a secret commitment?
When you are a transformational teacher, part of your job is to do the work you ask your students to do, on yourself and on your life.
Why? Aren’t you already transformed? No, transformation doesn’t last. Transformation is a momentary opening to the beyond, beyond what you already know and hold true, and that momentary opening doesn’t stay open for any longer than a few seconds, maybe minutes.
Which means, that if you don’t take an action consistent with the new opening you see, then the transformation is lost, maybe forever.
I am a transformational teacher, and I never pretend to have transformed: I do the work, every day, just like I ask you to do it.
Transformation is one of those phenomena when you can see that the saying is quite true: “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off…” Sounds funny, but it really isn’t.
Doing work, day in and day out, being pissed of by what you see is nobody’s dream life, and yet, if you want a bigger life, a less predictable, less scripted life, then the only path I have seen that works is ongoing transformation.