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Profound perspective shift
Dear Oshana,
As one who sat
in the chair opposite you on Friday night - I can report
that something profound happened to me - quite what that was
is a mystery. When you asked me to uncross my legs and
unlock my fingers, it felt like something inside me opened. There
was a shift, a different perspective happened. So far this has
stayed with me. I am reluctant to examine the process too closely as
that would invite the discriminating mind to create a concept around
it. On the way home from the meeting a beggar sitting on the street
exclaimed 'What a beautiful flower!'. So I gave her the rose you
had given me. I bowed, she smiled. On Saturday, I sat in
the Tate Modern Gallery looking out through a large window across
the Thames. Somehow everything appeared different, the
river, the boats, the buildings, all seen from another angle to
normal.
On the train home today a women sat opposite me and pulled
out of her bag a copy of the same novel that I was reading. We
discovered that we were only 4 pages away from each other in
our reading of the book. It is called 'The Wine of Angels'. It is a
fairly obscure book. She said what an
incredible coincidence! I do not know her name and will
probably never see her again, yet it felt that we were meant to
meet. Another mystery. Maybe you know what is happening. I
don't. It feels strange, yet Ok.
I have seen many teachers in my
life, different styles, different personalities, some formal, some laid back.
All I can say to go beyond the appearances. Things are not always as
they seem.
Stephen
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