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Learning is a life-long adventure.

Cultivate what there is to love in those you teach.

"Between the lines" (where all that matters happens), teach everything you know that is important.

Embrace "the universe in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour." (Blake)

"He not busy being born is busy dying." (Dylan)

Perceive how your course has meaning and how its wisdom can be used.

"Getting into it" can be ever more engaging than "getting out of it."

 Know the answer to "Why should I bother with this?

What you learn shapes who you become.

Appreciate your life.

Author its story.

     Bear a weightless inner peace amidst a heartfelt loving passion.

     Accept death’s tranquil lack of expectations.

     Celebrate your vibrant percolations.

     Step back enough to laugh at your foibles; but care, believe, and doubt all the way.

     Know who you are, what you want, how you get it, and how those change.

     Don’t waste time getting there:  be there.

     “The end is the means.” (Gandhi)

     Be aware of your needs and wants, but know the difference.

     You create much of your world.

     Simplify it even as your learnits infinite complexities.

     “Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and know the difference.” (Hopi saying)

     Use the unchangeables.

     Of the few with the chance to do anything, even fewer opt to act.

     Potential is a menu, not a burden.

     Embody your freedoms.

     Tend to them, then let go of your worries.

     Come clean each moment, and feel alive.

     “Your never fail.  Your have immediate successes and ones which come from earlier failures.” (Sharon Cruz)

     Excuses are mostly cheap and meaningless.

     You act on your time and persona.

     Learn to give fully and effortlessly.

     Embrace not only the wisdom of youth but that of old age as well.

     You’re always acting.

     “All the world’s a stage” (Shakespeare) that we go through.

     We write much of our own scripts.

     That you so often do so consciously pleases me.

     You might eventually help shape societal attitudes by how you live and what you put out, but don’t oblige yourself to do so.

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2. Understand others.

     Know your audiences ever more intimately.

     Find what there is to love about each person you deal with.  Be that person

     Accept those you love – including yourself – for who they are and who they wish to be.

     It’s okay.

     Perceive not only where they are, but how far you can take them.

     “I am shat I am, and that’s all what I am.” (Popeye)

     The eternal human score is one to one.

     Accept and forgive the fact that folks’ll say “so what” no matter what you do.

     Create – by whom you choose to be with – your inner circle of friends.

     Theater trumps content.  Ask Hitler

     Know your themes, but make them entertaining, or they’re mute.

     To know what people like, understand their personal cares.

     Packaging sells ‘em.  Product keeps ‘em.

     Performance involves getting them to watch; soul involves having told them something.

     Have compassion.

     You needn’t contrive vital needs. 

     Just listen to the silent sounds of 40,000 daily starving to death.

     There’s a real live drama going on outside the playhouse:  human history.

     A happy, aware, successful Nazi German actress is not required to educate her fans about concentration camps; but she’s better able to portray an interesting character if she is one herself.

     Nazi Germany’s attitude lives NOW in many places.

     “Shoulds” are mostly self-imposed.

     Most people choose to live as they are taught.

     “Give them a light and they will follow it anywhere.” (Firesign Theater)

     Because many who follow their patterning are unhappy, you might help them transform themselves.

     You may even encourage them to aid those whose hardships are not of their own making.

     I wonder what you’ll answer when I ask, twenty years from now,

     “What do you know now that you didn’t back then?” and

     “What are you glad you did back then?”

     Embrace your whole life.

     What legacy would you like to leave?

     LIVE all the lessons that matter.

     Every day you write another chapter in the story of your life.

     Your metamorphoses have enhanced my life.

     You give me hope.

     Thanks.

     Love and love,

     Michael