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[Harrison Owen]

Nice. Better than "nice" - may be one of our "high points." Thanks!

 

Harrison

 

Harrison Owen

7808 River Falls Drive

Potomac, Maryland   20845

Phone 301-365-2093

Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/>


Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org

Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Christy
Lee-Engel
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:52 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: oslist core purpose

 

  Dear OSlist members--for you: 

 

     "Maybe the most important Kabbalistic teaching on love comes from the
realm of cosmology, where the biblical mystics introduce to us a beautiful
and important idea that enormously affects how we live our lives. The idea
in two sentences: The world does not come into being through divinity
stepping forward in a creative gesture. Quite the opposite--God steps back
in a movement of sacrificial withdrawal in order to create the world. God
creates an empty space, and only then, in that space, can the world emerge
from the divine womb of being! 'But how can that be?' we ask the mystics.
'Isn't the whole point of the God idea that divinity is infinite and
everywhere? How can God just step back?'

    'This,' respond the biblical mystics, 'is precisely the mystery of
love.'"

    --Rabbi Marc Gafni, The Mysteries of Love

 

warm wishes, and thank you all for all of the space you continuously create,

Christy Lee-Engel

Seattle

 

p.s. I shall post a proper introduction some other time--briefly, I am a
recent new subscriber, had the fortunate and extraordinary experience of
participating in the practice of peace on whidbey island, and I guess I have
been a "lurker", "butterfly" and "sponsor" (still learning the language!)

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