I feel moved and touched. What an inspiration. This woman is so uplifting, and alive. Beautiful. To me this seems all it needs: a wide open heart for what is.

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by Mai Lovaas

… I am writing this as much to myself as to you, trying to put words to my experience, what this past week has been all about. I can’t label the retreat, it doesn’t have a technique or an orientation, but if I were to put some words onto it I would say a little bit of meditation, a lot of speaking and living your truth, about tuning in to the group collective, about feeling energy, about realizations and observations popping faster than you can speak them, and about tuning into something else by being present, from every moment to the next, with awareness, you can see, and avoid, conditioning, patterns, and come into something bigger. As Paul said, it is up to you now.  Read more »

by Devesh Komaromi

In a letter a friend wrote:

“… there are many many things that can keep us in our mind habit being one of them yes, but our many unexpressed feelings can block us too .”

My response:

Interesting questions: Mental habits and unexpressed feelings are blocking us. Therefore we need to try to overcome the habits, and to allow for unexpressed feelings to unblock so that we can attain “all peace we are looking for.”

I think that most people, most of the time, (once they are not worried about basic survival) are concerned with, challenged by, and identified with just these sorts of questions. Especially the latter.

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Looking at what’s been happening in the world the past weeks I came to see once again the insignificance and yet the preciousness of a single life, including mine.

It’s such an easy thing to feel touched by what I read in the newspapers, then make a donation, write a few emails to friends encouraging them to do so too, and yet turn away without really taking it in – all the way.

I have spent hours watching, reading and researching about the Haiti earthquake. Then, I came across this article from Katie Couric “The Human Face of Haitian Tragedy” on the Huffington Post. Read more »

Another great email from Paul Lowe to his list today:

… to get an idea at least, imagine this…

The planet is in serious, serious trouble, and we can’t fix it. (Not much imagination needed so far eh). Extra Terrestrials say they could save us, but it would take a lot of resources – so they would need to be sure that we are worth saving. So they come down to take ‘a sample human’ to check to see if we are worth the trouble. And they pick you!

Good example? Of course they would not just ask questions, they would have the facility to read your mind, and inner self. Negativity? Resentments? Caring? Spending appropriate amount of time, money and energy into evolving. Living life fully? Putting back at least as much as you are taking? Honest?

You could try being truthful with yourself – both ways – and see how you feel about yourself?

Love…

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Next Tuesday we’ll be holding another Intro evening to Sharing Group. I am excited about it and would love for as many of you to come as possible. Especially if you thought of trying it for a while now. It is a great opportunity to find out what Sharing Group is about and what it means to us.

In one way you could say there is no introduction needed. What we do can only be recognised but not really understood with the mind. There is no leader, no facilitator, no hierarchy, and no obvious rules. To me it’s a feeling of a rather intangible joint aspiration. Read more »

Over the last days something’s been cooking here. It’s been going on for some time now in different forms, shapes and words. But with my bike getting stolen in the middle of Covent Garden last Saturday afternoon it popped to another level.

To begin with, I would have refused to acknowledge the reality of the situation if they wouldn’t have left the cut cables which made the fact painfully clear in the very instant of our return. Retrospectively the following moments in slow motion revealed: At first there was a shock, disbelieve that “somebody would really do this”. Then pain, heartbreak over the loss. The thought of “they might have done it for some reason” popped up. Eventually rage flashed. At this point manipulation and control kicked in to calm the situation and avoid an irrational outburst in the middle of the street. I watched myself picking up the remains and making my way to the tube, silently and boiling on the inside. The body was shaking but numbed to what was really going on and busy with the little voice in the head feeding stuff about this all being no big deal.  Read more »

I was very impressed with this Robert Wright interview on The Bill Moyers Journal.  

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Excerpt from an email from Paul Lowe to his list today.

The anger thing is so obvious – unless we do not want to know. If we do have the realisation, then all our conditioning about being justified about being angry at something outside our self is blown – and we have to be responsible – so we cannot partake in what most humans are addicted to: complaint. Our anger is our anger. Our anger has accumulated because we did not acknowledge it at the time. Often, especially in childhood, it is not ‘convenient’ – spelled trouble. So it has built up, and as it is poisonous to our system, the body is using any opportunity to let flow out.

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