“we teach best what we need to learn the most”
I may not have the quote exactly right, since it has been some time since I read the book. And it may have been said by someone else and quoted in the book. But when I first saw this statement in “Illusions” by Richard Bach many years ago, it was simply a cool sounding quote that I wrote down & kept over the years.
What I didn’t know at the time is that this simple sounding statement is anything but simple. It is incredibly profound.
The older I get, the more I figure out how much I don’t know. Sure, it’s easy when talking with someone else to just “know” the answer to their problems. It’s not so easy applying those same answers in my own life when needed.
I was reminded of this recently while talking with a friend. As we discussed what was going on with his life, I shared with him as best I could what I thought I heard him saying, & how to deal with it. Even if I say so myself, I was offering some rather astute insights at the time!
Before I hurt my arm reaching around to pat myself on the back, I have to admit that the more we talked the more I recognized what I was sharing was from hard learned experience. On top of that, my eyes were further opened to some of the same situations in my own life, and that I had not really been handling them the same way I was recommending to my friend (man, these learning moments can be humbling!).
As long as I am able to take a breath on this earth, I pray I remember this quote & the wisdom it holds.
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