SunShines by Michael Lutin

Author:Michael Lutin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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You’ve got brains, and as long as you don’t destroy your brain cells, you’ll stand out and shine above your colleagues. There’s no question about that. One thing, though: Do you ever need a course on listening! Listening and communication are your greatest gifts and most difficult lessons at the same time. Early relationships, often with members of different cultural or religious backgrounds, will give you plenty of practice in tolerance, religious and otherwise. The whole issue of communication is central to your success in relationships, but it will take a long time to activate your brain and elevate your consciousness. Then, in order to connect with people, you actually have to come down a few notches so that regular, normal people can understand you. Because part of you thinks that you are either smarter than everybody or have brain damage or come from morally challenged ancestors, you sometimes make too much of an effort to be brilliant or correct, setting standards for yourself no human being can meet. Feeling above everybody on the one hand and beneath them at the same time could cause you to present an image that seems to others both grandiose and defensive. You can get so heady, intellectual, super-educated, and in the clouds that nobody can understand a word you said, which would certainly give you some sort of dominant or superior position. People walk away thinking either that they would enjoy a dialogue with you much more if they were smarter, or that you are crazy. Period. Like a being from another planet landing on Earth, a being with an intelligence far greater than anything known to human beings, you land here with great wisdom to impart to Earthlings, but to do it you have to learn English, not just the grammar, but street English, the language of the people.

You’re on the path to have fulfilling relationships. No matter how much you resist being in a relationship because you have to lower your level to communicate, it is the path that leads you out of loneliness and alienation, toward a more productive dialogue with your mate and all brothers and sisters with whom you think you have little or nothing in common. That is the goal—productive two-way dialogue. And that also requires listening—deeply listening to others and sharing ideas and information, teaching and learning from students. Boundaries between teachers and students can sometimes get blurred, because when you engage deeply, the personal aspect cannot be kept out of the relationship. So keeping good boundaries without being too remote and unavailable is the trick. You need to be able to step out of yourself to hear the other person without having to one-up them, and to be able to enter into full complete interaction without feeling stressed or having to constantly regain control.

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