Page XV keyword wisdom keyword teach the heart cannot…

Page XV keyword wisdom keyword teach the heart cannot be taught in a classroom intellectually to students mechanically taking notes. Good, wise hearts are obtained through lifetimes of diligent effort to dig deeply within and heal lifetimes of scars. You can't teach it or email it or tweet it. It has to be discovered within the depths of one's own heart when a person is finally ready to go looking for it, and not before. The job of the wise person is to swallow the frustration and just go on sitting an example of caring and digging and diligence in their own lives. What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, or the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted. Never forget that. The message is the person, perfect it over lifetimes of effort that was set in motion but yet otherwise person now hidden from the recipient by the dimness of time,. Life is much bigger than we think, cause and effect intertwined and they've asked moral structure that keeps pushing us to do better, become better, even when we dwell in the most painful confused darkness.

— from Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)

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Understand that you teach mostly by living. The hard, humbling fact is that what a wise person says is the smallest part of what they pass on. The message is the person; it is the totality of a life, the way you go about the smallest things, that actually transmits to the people watching you. Your deeds write an indelible history the way single letters join to tell an entire story. […] It is our shared responsibility — mine, yours, your children's — to see that the family's story carries on. Be the legacy. You teach far more by how you live than by what you say; the message is the person. Raise children who teach others. Your children are your legacy, and a legacy that teaches itself forward is perpetual. — Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)

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