“What you think, I can be” by David Morpurgo. As children we all live for the moment of clarity, when we look back over the totality of the matter at hand and we do not regret our foolishness.
This is the beginning of Toto. It begins with the universe moving forward in an outward direction toward a goal.
The thing we call Toto is like the teacher, or the famous story of the boy’s life. He walks into the classroom and the teacher tells him to sit in a corner. The teacher says, “now stand up.”
Now Toto stands up, looking at the teacher, asking, “why is it so hard to stand up?” The teacher says, “my dear, you know.” Toto asks the teacher, “can it be anything difficult?”
The teacher replies, “yes, my child, it is anything difficult, but only if you do not know what you are doing.” Toto sees the teacher as something important, and so the lesson of the lesson begins.
The lesson of the lesson to Toto is the lesson of living life and doing the work of the teacher. If you do not know the value of a lesson, it will fall to pieces before you can ever give it any thought.
You will go through your life and you will look back and you will say that the only thing you learned in your life was to repeat the lesson, to do the work of the teacher. The lesson of the lesson to Toto is the lesson of doing the work of the teacher. The teacher is the cause of the lesson to Toto.
If you do not know the value of a lesson, you will never have to experience a master’s education. The lesson of the lesson to Toto is your master’s education. It is the education you have to give yourself in order to rise above the lives of the people around you. That is the difference.
If you have no experience with something, you will do that thing over, hoping one day to do it to the extent of perfection. The lesson of the lesson to Toto is to accept the shortcomings, to accept the imperfection of the lesson, to accept the imperfection of the teacher. That is the difference.
The lesson of the lesson to Toto is not to do something and not to learn something. The lesson of the lesson to Toto is to learn the lesson from the lesson to Toto. That is what your master’s education is all about. It is the knowledge of the profound changes you will have to make.
Remember the first thing you do when you start a new chapter in your life is to look back and go through the lesson again and again, looking at the main thing that you are learning. Only by living for the moment do you get through the lesson and live for the lesson to Toto.