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<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Mike
and everyone -- wonderful conversation and fodder for
reflection.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In my
experience, I find spurts of balance <grin>! And simply noticing
them bring more -- noticing the peace that is left when resistance
subsides.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Your
words on relationships speaks to me. When in any kind of relationship,
when there is difference, I can choose to see my internal stories that may limit
my evolving nature. It is like a progression as I choose to see that my
buttons can only be pushed if I have them in the first
place.....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
push my button</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I have
a button pushed</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In my
interaction with you, in our difference, I choose to have a button
pushed</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I see
I have a button to push</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
pushed my button in the interaction</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Noticing you, in your difference, liberates me!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>cheers</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=110085917-04112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Judi
Richardson</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Reap the Rewards!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Mike
Copeland<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 03, 2003 8:19 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fear and control (waxing
lyrical)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Beautiful words everyone </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>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>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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class=058275321-03112003></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058275321-03112003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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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