Love Notes XLVI

The light within us does not come from another. Sometimes, an encounter simply helps us remember what has always been there. A reflection on teaching, presence, and the quiet miracle of remembrance. The teacher does not switch on the light within the student. The encounter helps the student recognize the light that was already there. And perhaps the deepest part of it is that the light belongs to neither the teacher nor the encounter. The encounter simply creates the conditions in which remembrance becomes possible. Nothing is given that was not already there. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE