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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=250524015-26042003>Ashley and
Christine....</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=250524015-26042003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=250524015-26042003>Thank you for
sharing. I host a circle here where many of us explore authentic
conversation. I appreciate your sharing from the heart and I took your
thoughts with me into the woods.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=250524015-26042003></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=250524015-26042003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Holding
space for me includes much of what you both talk about. When I experience
Unity of Purpose within, including connection to Source, being, doing, acting is
effortless and fearless. I hold space for peace -- and I do that from my
practice of inner peace. That also means staying in my inner peace if and
when someone else takes exception to what I've said or done or even how I look,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>because it means that<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>communicating "out there" really means
communicating "in here" as well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250524015-26042003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Some of us
touched on this subject on another list. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250524015-26042003><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff>As we know, in Quantum physics - that
at a subatomic level, we, and<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>everything
else in the Universe, is Energy. When you break everything down,<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>we're all made of the same stuff, and we're all
connected. The Universe is<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>just this huge
ocean of Energy, vibrating at various frequencies which gives<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>the illusion of individuation. That is, we
experience the illusion of<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>separateness
from each other, physical objects, and wealth because our<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>"senses" are decoding the Energy around us in such a way as to
create our</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff>physical reality. This all happens in
our thoughts. So, "things" only exist<SPAN class=250524015-26042003>
</SPAN>because we observe them. It is in our observing that things come
into<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>existence. Without our observing,
things are simply "waves" - probabilities<SPAN class=250524015-26042003>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>of existence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I choose to see and speak of those such as
yourself who are working<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>toward
sacred community as great gifts and role models. I choose to attract<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>clients who want to do the same. I watch and I
learn from you, rather than<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>seeing and
speaking of others less ethical, thus giving them power. And,<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>once again, I'm not talking about rose colored
glasses<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> -- there is still space for anger,
discernment, sadness</SPAN>. I offer this as my belief is, if we as a collective
on this list,<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>continually write words
about how tough it is to get enough participants, to<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>attract decent clients, etc..... those words
become actions and habits. And<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>I'm
certainly not suggesting that we stop raising our vulnerability to each<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>other, as vulnerability is power. And I will
continue to ask for<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>clarification and
assistance when I'm caught in a spiral of change and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>temporarily can't see clearly.<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=250524015-26042003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=250524015-26042003></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff>It is focussing on what I appreciate in life so that Spirit has a
clear idea<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff>of what I want <grin>. And yeah, there are
times when it's more that I can<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>feel that
I'm still trying to make the paradigm shift from the old<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>"struggle, struggle, big brother won't let me,
and making-do with what<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>little there is"
syndrome into the "freedom, ease, flow, allowing and it can<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff>come easily space". My work is trusting that.<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=250524015-26042003></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=250524015-26042003>Space
for sacred conversation</SPAN> can only be "sunk" into the world of
language if I choose for<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>it to be. So,
today I choose to appreciate and recognize the hundreds of<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>you who beleive in sacred community and
sustainability in this space and who<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>are
creating that for others and the hundreds<SPAN class=250524015-26042003>
</SPAN>I meet in the organizations and communities I work with, play with,
sweat<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>with.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>And, as I write this, I am grateful to have
had the space to articulate this<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>here --
and the crystal in my window reflects a rainbow on the wall to the<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>left of my monitor.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Belief is such a powerful thing and is made
up of thoughts. It seems like<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>yesterday I
was looking into the eyes of my 11 year old after his first pee<SPAN
class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>wee football game saying -- Mum, I'm going to
be a pro some day. And <SPAN class=250524015-26042003>he leaves (at
23) in a few weeks to play with </SPAN>Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the
Canadian<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>Football League marvelling at how
he has attracted an agent who speaks of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff>the game as fun, assists in finding
him an apartment, saving money, and<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> </SPAN>places
for prayer and contemplation!<SPAN class=250524015-26042003> He is one of
my greatest teachers as he takes himself fully to this game -- and has made
great changes in any team he has played with. And he laughs as he tries to
tell others what his Mum "does"!</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250524015-26042003><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Judi</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P>Judith Richardson<BR>Pono Consultants International<BR>Facilitating the
Flow<BR> of Inspired
Collaboration<BR>www.ponoconsultants.com<BR>(902) 435-0308 </P>
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