occidentorient

[Elena A. Marchuk]

It is not easy - to love ALL people in this situation, but thank you, Ruth,
we need to keep our love and don't do more cruelty then it is already exist.

how to do this? - the only question

I learn to pray, and I'm with all my friends, collegues and all americans in
this very hard days

take care

hope for the best

elena

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Karzel" <r.karzel at web.de>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: occidentorient


> Dear all,
>
> let me, an OS-apprentice with Michael in Berlin, tell you that I feel deep
grieve for what has happened
>
> my first sorrow after the news was, "I hope, I hope that not revenge will
be the main thought in Amerika", because violence is the seed for further
violence
>
> your voices are moving and comforting me, speaking about love
>
> what I thought than was,
> this cruel attack sounds like desperation,
> it might be the result of the seed of violence,
> planted through years and centuries, the result of hurted,
> humiliated souls, and - if it really comes from this
> eastern part of the world - it is the fruit of a century-old
> struggle between Orient and Occident,never resolved since
> the times of the cruisades
> this old lack of respect on the side of Occident
> in front of other civilizations
>
> all these sounds theory in this moment, I know,
> but it should not be forgotten because history
> is the backbag of us all (if we want to understand)
>
> and so
> your warm voices are so important now
> to help to stop the spiral of hatred, even if it seems difficulty, now
(and maybe against certain interests)
>
> looking at the example of the irish terrorist and the priest,
> understanding and transformation are possible,
> and the first step to understand is
> to understand ourselves and to admit our own abysses
> and that they take part of ourselves, as you wrote
>
> just in this moment writing this the strange thought crossed my head, that
these cruel and desperate murderers did a thing that in reality may be one
face, one expression, the dark side of a whole we are all part of, seeing
world like one organism. Perhaps here lies a point to begin to understand
the "why???"?
>
> and so we are concerned as well, we suffer with you in America
> and feel deep grieve with you
>
> warmest blessings
>
> Ruth Karzel
> Berlin
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