Simply Be Ourselves?

Daniel asked most evenings that we read from either the TCC Photo Text or Spiritual Odyssey and be ready to discuss them the next day. Or he posed questions for us to ponder as we settled in for the night. The last night of accreditation week he asked us to evaluate our own practice and share what we would be taking home to work on, or to share something from the week that we wanted to take with us. I reviewed my notes from the week, jotted a few things down, and went to bed. But not to sleep.

Words kept buzzing around in my head, words I wanted to share with the precious people with whom I had practiced and shared all week: “Where do you go from here? We have been told to ‘Become your own teacher trainer.’ What other organization appears to give no direction? What other group insists that you go off and simply be you?” Once again, the wisdom of the Chi revealed truth. I turned to each candidate gathered on that last morning and shared, “And each of YOU is unique. And each of YOU is worthy.”