A Practice of Peace (Tova Averbuch)

[Toni Petrinovich]

Peggy, you speak the words of my heart - the One Heart that holds us all -
in union.

Blessings,
Toni

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From: "Peggy Holman" <peggy at opencirclecompany.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: A Practice of Peace (Tova Averbuch)


> 5.  ??? Here's where we are now.  We don't know what it is yet.
>
> Is the fifth a both/and?  Accept all our differences AND accept that we
are
> all one?
>
>
> On Monday evening, I spent about 3 hours with Michael Herman on his way
from
> Chicago to Fairbanks, Alask via Seattle.  I hadn't read anything from the
> list for days and wasn't aware of this conversation.  Michael and I talked
> about how striking it was that the core message from every spiritual
> tradition that we knew of contained this seed of many and one.  He told me
> that I was clearly in the list's conversation without actually being
there!
>
> Here's one example of what I mean.  The Sh'ma is perhaps the most
essential
> prayer of Judaism.  (I know there are a number of you who know more alot
> about this subject than I, so please chime in!)  As said today, it
> translates to "Hear O Israel, the lord our god the lord is one."  About a
> year ago I met a Sufi master and a Druid.  Independently, each one told me
> that the rough translation for yod-hay-vov-hay (the unspoken word for god)
> is "oh, above, below."  The Sufi went on to say that the word adonai had
> been substituted for yod-hay-vov-hay in the Sh'ma.  This would mean that
the
> prayer would actually translated to something like:
>
> "Hear O Israel, oh, above-below is god, above-below is one."
>
> I think of it as diverse unity.  And it is us.
>
> Peggy
>
>
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