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teaching experience.
    This decision required me to go well beyond fear into trust. In this stage of my apprenticeship with inner guidance, I gained an increasing awareness of the grand design of my life. And as I did, a great spiritual opportunity came my way.
    I t happened during my second year of teaching.
    I was employed by a small-town suburban high school in the Midwest, and life was very full. I was teaching during the day, working on my master’s degree at night.
    My classroom was large. Chalkboards covered three walls, and the fourth was all windows. Teaching American literature, I emphasized writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
    To prepare myself for the challenges of each day, I offered a simple little prayer: “Dear God, please show me what to teach the students. Teach me truth so that I may better teach them.” I then listened carefully to any inner guidance or subtle nudges I might feel as I went through my day.
    We often talked about the beliefs of outstanding writers, and that led to periods of animated discussion and debate. I yearned to help these students find elements of philosophy that would assist them in their lives. I also recognized that what I taught them could Inner Guidance_CH 01-05.p65
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    shape their thinking for a lifetime. During each class, after we covered the primary material, I would write a quote from some noted philosopher on the board and invite discussion.
    One day, the first of many unusual things occurred.
    As I put my piece of chalk to the board, a mysterious feeling came over me. My hand moved across the chalkboard, writing a short line of text. I was writing something that I did not recognize. I could not recall ever having read these words before. What appeared on the chalkboard was this:
    “My opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world.”
    What is this? I thought, staring at the white marks on black. I did not intend to write these words! Whose words have I written?
    I backed away from the chalkboard, as much to distance myself from such an oddity as to study it better.
    These words had come to me through the inner guidance I had learned to trust so well. Was something wrong, or was something very right?
    I felt uneasy, almost frightened. Yet, in the face of this uncertainty, I found a little comfort in the fact that the words somehow seemed familiar to me. Perhaps I had read it somewhere once and now, somehow, had spontaneously recalled it.
    But who wrote it?
    I placed quotation marks at the beginning and end of what I had written, but I cited no author as I normally would have.
    Gathering my composure, I calmly announced to Inner Guidance_CH 01-05.p65
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    the class that we would read this quote and then discuss it. Slowly I read the lines again. We were studying American literature, but this was not from any of the American literature I had studied.
    Immediately, two students’ hands shot up, and the questions began.
    “Who wrote that?” demanded one student.
    The other asked, “Are you going to give the author and the source?”
    To cover my lack of information, I told my class that I would not reveal the author or the source at this time.
    We would simply discuss what was on the board.
    Shortly, however, the bell rang, and the students left the class, smiling. They felt I was up to something. I reassured myself that I would do some research and find the source of the quote. The next group of students entered the room and took their seats as I hurriedly copied the quote from the board to my own journal.
    Categorizing what had happened as an enigma, I simply put it out of