We are ALL Teachers

Summary

The text emphasizes the importance of sharing personal life experiences as a means of teaching and positively impacting others, suggesting that this act of giving away knowledge is a divine responsibility and a source of further enlightenment.

Abstract

The author asserts that sharing one's life lessons is not just a choice but an obligation, as it can profoundly influence at least one person among many. This sharing is seen as a divine exchange where the act of teaching others enriches the teacher with new insights and experiences. The article argues that hoarding knowledge or claiming sole credit for one's achievements leads to a spiritual and educational stagnation, while selflessly sharing wisdom contributes to an ever-growing collective abundance of knowledge. The author encourages readers to overcome shyness and embrace the act of sharing, as it not only benefits others but also provides a sense of purpose and fulfillment that enhances one's own life. The text concludes with a personal anecdote about the unexpected impact of sharing a seemingly unremarkable piece of writing, reinforcing the idea that one's words can have life-changing effects on others.

Opinions

Sharing personal experiences is an absolute responsibility and a divine mandate for personal and collective growth.
Keeping knowledge to oneself after gaining valuable insights from life experiences is considered a sin and hinders further learning.
Recognizing that one's abilities and experiences are gifts to be shared, rather than personal achievements, is crucial for continuous spiritual and intellectual development.
The act of giving away knowledge leads to an endless cycle of learning and teaching, creating a fulfilling sense of purpose.
Even seemingly insignificant personal stories or writings can have a profound impact on others, potentially even being life-saving.
The value of one's words may not be immediately apparent to the speaker or writer but can be deeply meaningful and affirming to the listener or reader.
Living a life of sharing and teaching without claiming ownership of the knowledge is presented as the key to a spiritually and physically healthy life.

We are ALL Teachers

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But when You Learn you MUST Give it AWAY !!

It’s not a question if you should give it away, it’s your absolute responsibility to give it away, if even one of your experiences in life can touch 1 out of 10,000 readers’ lives, it’s not only worth it for that alone. But when someone reads your story and it resonates with them in such a way it changes their lives, well, the universe or God turns in that direction and sees those positive changes, and also sees that it was your experience that you shared that gave them the ability to see a better path for themselves, then God rewards you with more experiences that can not only change your life directly but the lives of others when you take those lessons and give them away, making you a better teacher through each of those life lessons. Now this works both ways, if you had an experience that was life-changing for you, whether it was a struggle or a blessing or a combination of both and you gained something from it, it not only would be a sin to keep it to yourself but you’ll find that your next learning experience doesn’t materialize, in other words, God is teaching you, tenderizing you and then rewarding you for the experience, but that experience is NOT yours to keep, it came to you, he worked through you, and you were rewarded for your faith and resilience with an abundance of blessings.

But if you start taking sole credit for something that happened to you that was miraculous and God working in your life, healing and enlightening you and you start saying “I did this” instead of saying he did this working through me. And if you believe that are just more fortunate than others or luckier or more intelligent and then you become selfish with the lessons you have learned, that were given or gifted to you and been blessed with and keep it all to yourself, like a secret that was only shared with you, because you\believe that you were chosen or special. Well then God sees that too, and unless you change your ways, that’s the last lesson that God will share with you, that’s right if you steal or hoard last year's textbooks, so to speak, you will not receive any new knowledge or textbooks this year, because you are special but by being selfish and self-serving, you miss the bigger lesson there, that we all are special in both our ability to not just teach and our ability to learn, but when everyone is sharing and giving their own unique life lessons and perspectives away then you create a shared abundance that can’t easily be put into words and is neverending in the scope and depth of the knowledge shared.

You may be shy or embarrassed by sharing your experiences at first, but if you just slowly and easily start to share your experience, you’ll soon discover you cannot stop both learning and teaching at the same time, and by giving it away your life gains a sense of purpose that’s bigger than you, and it’s such a fulfilling feeling that you’ll wonder how you ever lived any other way.

You’ve Suffered

You’ve endured

You’ve healed and learned

And your experiences or so unique to you that you’ll soon discover that you can’t put a price tag on them, all because You have become the teacher, and you gladly and enthusiastically gave it away to others.

We are ALL Teachers

Share your knowledge and experience and enthusiastically GIVE IT AWAY, the abundance of rewards you get by living your life this way cannot be easily measured. So teach it and give it away always, but never, ever claim ownership over it.

I myself like to describe these types of things happening through me and not just to me, so when I realize it was never mine to keep in the first place, it becomes imperative for not just my creative health, but for my life to become a passionate fulfilling piece of work, to share it everywhere and at any time you can, your life experience, testimony, and your willingness to share it becomes essential to your well being and health, both spiritual and physical. Don’t discount your life experiences as not worthy of sharing in some way, believe me, there have been many times that I hit publish on an article or given a lecture or testimony and thought it wasn't any good, but it’s interesting, because other people end up finding meaning in your words that you just don’t see, and I always end up with a quizzical look on my face and find myself saying “really?”. The most dramatic of those examples of when I almost didn’t share or publish something because I thought it just wasn’t good enough, and then received a personal message on that article which I thought was rather bland at best, a young woman sent me a note saying, “ because of your words this morning, I didn’t complete my suicide” When I talked with her further, it was clear she was contemplating hurting herself, and was preparing to do so, and then something that I wrote moved her in such a way that she stopped her suicide attempt before it went any further, and I am obviously humbled by that experience, because reading her notes I knew that she was not bluffing, and when I went back and read the passage that moved her to change her mindset, it was the one paragraph in the whole article that I remember didn’t quite come from me but through me, and I realized then how important it is to show up and try to write, or work, or reach out to others when you feel like your not at your best, because I promise you this, although you might not see the value in your word in the moment, I gaurantee you someone will find value in them, and sometimes it can be life affirming experience too. So realize your words have meaning besides just here on these pages, and you’ll understand that just “being a writer” has a much greater meaning than that. So live, write, learn and teach and always give it away, it will come back to you in ways that you can’t comprehend until it begins to happen. God Bless you all as you discover your lessons and meet your students on that path that lies in front of us all, I’ll see you there. Amen to That!

And as always Thank you for reading ( and writing, teaching, and sharing)

John Walter Raney 1st