When you learn be sure to know exactly Where the lines occur, and to distinguish Lines from not lines, and to own The capability to say where lines are, When you learn to draw dark lines.
And when you learn to draw, remind yourself That teaching is the same as learning To draw lines. You are the student of your teaching, and your lines Will be remembered after you. When you learn to draw and you are sure That you have drawn dark lines, look At the lines and ask why they are there. Know that you may reason with the lines, Infer what they have shown, and do not Fail to be immersed in just these lines. Already they will have transcended you. They will have encumbered your availability. They will have taken the attention Otherwise allotted to your being and replaced it For attention to themselves. Then be sure to learn that they no longer are your lines. That you have made them does not imply That these are lines that have to do with you. You are the way these lines arrived. They appear to hold where you have placed them, Those segments of the true lines, The lines that you have drawn, Not your lines. sheila e. murphy
