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<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Beautiful words everyone </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
have all brought me to the guts of my initial enquiry: how does one find the
balance between fear/control and letting go/going with the
flow?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> Finding that balance comes back to being a co-creator with spirit
for me. I am spirit's hands, eyes, ears, mouth piece; yet I am
not <U>all</U> of it! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Spirit
flows regardless of whether I hold its waters tight or with open palms. My
experience is enhanced or diminished depending on <U>my </U>stance. This is what
open space is teaching me. My co-operation, malleableness, flexibility,
ultimately <STRONG>openness </STRONG>to spirit is what life is all
about.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
four principles, one law and spirit of open space are not just for meetings.
They are for living! In trying to live these things out, in the furnace of
everyday trials, especially in relationships, o</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>pen space
provides me with a framework to be receptive to spirit; mine and the
world's. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>That's
all </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Mike
Copeland</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Peggy Holman
[mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 4 November 2003
9:35 a.m.<BR><B>To:</B> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Fw:
Fear and control (waxing lyrical)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Robyn -- lovely image!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This conversation reminds me of one from last January called
"self-organization is what consciousness (spirit) does".</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I pulled this snippet of mine from it:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I recently was given a gift of an image around this that
I've found quite<BR>helpful. A Buddhist priest attended Spirited
Work (a learning community<BR>that gathers quarterly in OS). He used an
image of hands for holding space.<BR>Actually, here are Master Chang's
words:<BR><BR>>Since I left Whidbey Island, I've constantly thought of OS
and its<BR>spiritual manifestation in earthly conditionings. It's dawn[ed] on
me that<BR>>we constantly create mental boundaries and then transfigure
them into<BR>organizational rules, etc., which we call containers. Thus, there
are<BR>>levels upon levels of containers, depending on levels of minds that
we<BR>have. What OP[OST] methodology attracts me is the way it
can<BR>>facilitate and accommodate multi-levels of containers by very few
simple<BR>rules of gathering and interaction. The challenge for me in
>creating an<BR>OP[OST] organization is to be able to make available (and
to promote)<BR>evolutionary & consequential levels of<BR>>unfoldment
... so one can evolve from "container/2 hands cupped, facing<BR>each other" to
"supporter/2 hands open, facing upwards" to >"being/handless<BR>gesture"
...<BR><BR><BR>I LOVE this picture of hands reflecting the evolution of space,
perhaps<BR>because it mirrors my own growing comfort with space. (While
I aspire to<BR>it, I'm not sure I'm ready to hang out in the space of "look
ma, no hands!")<BR>It reminds me that we are all at different places of
comfort with openness.<BR>I may go screaming from the room when the space
feels too closed and someone<BR>else go running to their room because the
space is too open.</FONT><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Peggy</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>----- Original Message -----
<DIV>From: "Robyn" <<A
href="mailto:pov@IINET.NET.AU">pov@IINET.NET.AU</A>></DIV>
<DIV>To: <<A
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>></DIV>
<DIV>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:22 AM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Re: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>> RE:<BR>> If you close those two hands - you end up with
two fists. Definitely not<BR>> what we want.<BR>> <BR>> ~ (delighted
laughter!) I pictured the closing of two open hands, like<BR>> an
almond. The result, according to a dear and wise women that I
know,<BR>> is the mandorla, which has become a very powerful symbol for me
in my<BR>> journey towards wholeness.<BR>> <BR>* *
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