[OSList] Lonely

Tue Sep 30 18:36:50 PDT 2014

And of course in the Vedic tradition, where we sing the Sanskrit 'so hum' or 'sat nam' mantra together, when chanted with intention it's like the universal sound of OM...joint mind and heart, personal and transpersonal
and that practice seems to seal  the sense of connection - a practice
 aka - something that helps us experience and embrace the the opposite of loneliness 

This wisdom that arises from our bodies, this primordial delight of eternal life in connection with others that we experience in Open Space is also found in creative practices of sound and movement when we help each other to remember who we really are

As a Quaker child in NY,  all we did was to sit, and sit more, then when we sat together, the bizarre awareness of not being separate landed in us and then people branched out, creating new things 
Maybe Because they did not feel lonely

Creativity arose from that connection in stillness, belonging and silent, until something moved in us to share...

And now, the energy streams forth, just like Indras net...shimmering and opening toward a new

????

so hum

Allie Middleton 
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> On Sep 30, 2014, at 21:04, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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> OMG!  I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.!  Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully.
> 
> The question remains about opposites to the word "lonely"..
> 
> Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered words have feeling associated with them? Like "lonely" does?
> 
> Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic, African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments?
> 
> Merci!
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> Annamarie Pluhar
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>> On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
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>> Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'.
>> 
>> Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
>>> Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced "kuh-NIV-en". I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means "your places of multiple belonging". That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name.
>>> 
>>> In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means "all my relations" but is actually better translated as "I belong to everything." That's as good an opposite of "lonely" as I can think of.
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>>>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely:
>>>> 
>>>> Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver
>>>> And did you get what
>>>> you wanted from this life, even so?
>>>> I did.
>>>> And what did you want?
>>>> To call myself beloved, to feel myself
>>>> beloved on the earth.
>>>> 
>>>> John
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Annamarie,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com <http://www.thesaurus.com/>. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own):
>>>>> 
>>>>> * populated
>>>>> * *sociable*
>>>>> * befriended
>>>>> * *close*
>>>>> * frequented
>>>>> * inhabited
>>>>> * *loved*
>>>>> * unlonely
>>>>> 
>>>>> Warm Regards,
>>>>> Harold
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English....  Does your language have a word that is the opposite of "lonely"?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Feel free to respond to me off list..
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> annamarie at pluharconsulting.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Annamarie Pluhar
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