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Eva-- I loved your shared thoughts below. It reminded me that friends and
colleagues of mine often iterate the principles when talking about any gathering
of any kind for any purpose. Be Peace --BJ Peters<br>
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Eva P Svensson wrote. . .<br>
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style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"><o:p></o:p>I am thinking that what
if I just could live the principles and the law <span style=""> </span>-
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">always</span></b> think that I am meeting
the right people, that whatever happens is the right thing, that when it’s
starts its starts and when its over it is and if I don’t like it – take my
feet to where I better would like to be. It looks so easy but it’s so difficult
just for one to live, to “walk the talk” in every days life.<span
style=""> </span>But there where it has to start isn’t it – if we all start
right where we are I am sure that it will make a different because through
my behaviour I will affect others. As a tiny example I hade a conversation
to day with my very best friend and we where talking about that she should
spend here time where she wanted to spend it and not where she thought she
was supposed to because of traditions, expectations etc. If she had went
to where she was supposed to and not wanted to – it would have shown through
negative energy.</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">So I think that one way
to open my personal space is to live the principles and the law, although
I will have to deal with fears (my own as well as others), breaking “behaviour
rules”, and most important finding my own truth. </span></font><font
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span
lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">And in my ongoing work
of trying to find that, (my truth and needs), I just stumbled over the English
word close. To close the door, to close the space. But if you put some more
letters to the word it has the total opposite meaning – closeness – to be
close to another person, to be close to one an other. <span style=""> </span>It
was when a person said to me “you must look for closeness” and I keep on
thinking on the meaning of “closing something” instead of what she really
mean (to be close to someone), that I started to think about it. <span
style=""> </span>I don’t know but in a way there must be a meaning with
that. If I take same words for close and closeness in Swedish there is nothing
similar at all. </span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Från:</span></b> OSLIST [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>]<b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">För </span></b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skickat:</span></b> den 24 april 2003
23:37<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Till:</span></b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ämne:</span></b> Re: Testing</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">At 06:44 PM 4/24/2003 +0200, Eva
P Svensson wrote:<br style="">
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style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">So quiet - just have to test that
I'm still connected to you all!</span></font><font color="black"><span
lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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The silence is in fact deafening. And particularly noticeable for this group.
When silences come I find the reasons are usually three: a) Nothing to say.
b) Nothing need be said. c) What could, or should, be said takes people to
a place they don't want to go. I vote for c)<br>
<br>
The events of the past month are, indeed, a little overwhelming. The US
invades Iraq, SARS breaks out. And now North Korea threatens to do a nuclear
demonstration -- whatever that might mean. Sufficient to take your breath
away. Forget about talking. And the prospects for the immediate future are
hardly encouraging. Speaking just for myself, I can say that at such times,
space becomes claustrophobically small. And my daily activities verge on
the irrelevant. Silence. Very quiet.<br>
<br>
It is quite possible that we are really in the midst of very, very, deep
doo-doo, from which there is no easy or obvious escape. Under the circumstances
it is always nice to have somebody to beat on and blame. George the Shrub
comes immediately to mind. But regardless of what he did do that he shouldn't
have -- or didn't do and should have, the situation is probably well beyond
him. From where I sit, he remains what he has always been -- an embarrassment.
As Birgitt might be tempted to say -- We have a lot of Dead Moose. <br>
<br>
And yet in such moments, there is the possibility of enormous learning.
For ourselves, how do we open our personal space so that in this present
moment we can be fully here -- fully alive? And for our neighbors, colleagues,
clients and friends, how can we open that communal space so breath (and meaningful
conversation) becomes a possibility? Opening this sort of space is rather
different, I think, from filling the air with trite platitudes and the power
of positive thinking. It goes to a deeper place.<br>
<br>
Slightly less than a year ago, I was privileged to work with a group of Palestinians
and Israelis in Rome. Relatively speaking, the world at that point (compared
to the present moment) seemed almost idyllic -- but for those coming from
The Middle East it appeared something other than a rose garden. And in their
presence, I could only share something of the brittle fatalism reflected in
the forced smiles, and nervous laughter with which we began our gathering.
Knowing full well that I could never be fully where they were, I nevertheless
felt compelled to share my own vulnerability -- In my opening of the circle
on that first day I said something like...<i><span
style="font-style: italic;">"I had come because I cared for my friends in
Palestine and Israel, and also for myself and my children. And although the
people in that circle may feel themselves isolated and alone in their own
private Hell with their own agonizing story, that story was also the story
of our world. Like it or not they were in the hot crucible of the future
of humankind. The future of all of us is being created in that strange place
known as the Holy Land, even as it has been for millennia. So I cared, but
I was also on the edge of despair or beyond. I could not think of any way
out. The issues were so deep and intractable that movement appeared denied.
Space was closed. But still I came, and still I cared – as I presumed was
true for each of them as well."<br>
<br>
</span></i>My learning during those days in Rome was profound. It became
startling clear that neither I, nor any single person there, had the wisdom,
courage, strength or perseverance to get us where we needed to go. But none
of us were called upon to do that -- we all were -- and all rose to the challenge.
In that rich space which contained all of our hopes, fears, frustrations and
anxieties, we collectively found a collegiality which included and transcended
them all. Needless to say, we did not bring peace to The Middle East, but
we surely experienced peace in that moment. And that was a moment we will
never forget.<br>
<br>
So maybe it is time to break our silence here on good old OSLIST -- share
what we are, and what we are learning. <br>
<br>
<br>
Harrison<br>
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