Mr. Rogers

Reading from Wednesday, February 27, 2013 yoga class

I had a different reading chosen for class today, but as I was reading the Louisville Courier Journal this morning, I saw that Mr. Rogers had died on this day.  I immediately went to my book shelf and pulled out one of my favorites: The world according to Mister Rogers: important things to remember by Fred Rogers.  Here's the excerpts I chose to read to class:

Mutually caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.  We need to accept the fact that it's not in the power of any human being to provide all these things all the time.  For any of us, mutually caring relationships will also always include some measure of unkindness and impatience, intolerance, pessimism, envy, self-doubt, and disappointment.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

Development comes from within.  Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

It came to me ever so slowly that the best way to know the truth was to begin trusting what my inner truth was...and trying to share it--not right away--only after I had worked hard at trying to understand it.


What a loving, kind, and wonderful man, Fred Rogers was.   Aren't we lucky to have his words to read over and over again.