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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Hi Mike,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>I think you had it right the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Becoming centered and remaining at peace
amidst huge turmoil does not require that you lose your humanity, though it
probably does mean you transcend your current concept of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>I think recognizing we’re out of
balance is good because we become aware we have a lesson to learn. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The act of learning the lesson brings us
more into balance, helps us recognize more of our inherent centeredness and
wholeness, and provides us with the strength and courage we need to meet the
next lesson.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The point of all the
lessons is to help us learn to keep balancing what is imbalanced until we are
perfectly balanced. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I think that
place of perfect centeredness, wholeness and balance is available to all of us,
and is the entire reason we’re here.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Balancing, or resolving our polarities, is good, good, good.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In the way we’re using terms here,
“balance” isn’t death, but enlightenment.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(Though as I ponder it, there is the
death of the ego to contend with, so yes, there is a death.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>As for
balancing fear/control and letting go/going with the flow…..</span></font></span><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> <span class=GramE>try</span> this.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Draw a triangle with a base line at the
bottom and two lines moving up to the third point at the top.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Write “fear/control” under
the left point at the base of the triangle, and write “letting go/going
with the flow” under the right point at the base of the triangle.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This is the polarity you’re trying
to resolve.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Now you have the
remaining point, at the top of the triangle, with nothing written yet.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This is the point of the ascended <span
class=GramE>balance,</span> the state of being that transcends this particular
duality.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Now sit with your polarity
and feel into it. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>What attracts you
to each polarity?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>What repels you
from each polarity?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Feel into a
state that transcends the attraction/repulsion of both, and find that place
where you are centered and whole and sure.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>If you can’t find it, stay with it.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Ask for help and trust that you will
receive it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Now that you’ve brought this up, I
can see so many of my ponderings about OST embedded in this very triangle. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Thanks for bringing a bit more light to
my understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>This method of polarity processing is based
on Leslie Temple-Thurston’s work and especially her book The Marriage of
Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Julie <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST [mailto:</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mike Copeland<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="11" Day="4" Year="2003"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday, November 04, 2003</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="10" Minute="23"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>10:23 AM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Fear and control
(waxing lyrical)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Thanks </span></font><st1:place><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Harrison</span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>You have just blown my
idea of Nirvana. I've always thought there must be a place where I can be
centred and remain at peace amidst huge turmoil. But you're right if I was
always there I'd lose my humanity; life. I still get angry and you
from time to time even let myself feel a little joy!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>So from where I float in
the South Pacific, New Zealand, its far better BEING IN the river than
out!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Mike Copeland</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Harrison Owen
[mailto:hhowen@COMCAST.NET] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="11" Day="4" Year="2003"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday, 4 November 2003</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="14" Minute="11"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>2:11 p.m.</span></font></st1:time><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Fear and control
(waxing lyrical)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Michael wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>how does one find the
balance between fear/control and letting go/going with the flow?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I don't think you ever will.
And if you did - you would be dead. As the fellow says - when you reach
equilibrium in biology, you are dead. So then what? I would guess we are all on
a journey up or down the river - replete with all sorts of ebbs and flows. It
would be great if it all would just even out (balance out). But it never does.
Unless of course you choose to leave the river . . . <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><st1:place><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>harrison</span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Mike Copeland<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="11" Day="3" Year="2003"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Monday, November 03, 2003</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="19" Minute="19"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>7:19 PM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Fear and control
(waxing lyrical)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Beautiful
words everyone </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>You have
all brought me to the guts of my initial enquiry: </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> 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! </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>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><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>openness
</span></font></b></strong>to spirit is what life is all about.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>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, open space provides me with a
framework to be receptive to spirit; mine and the world's. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>That's
all </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Mike
Copeland</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Peggy Holman
[mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="11" Day="4" Year="2003"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday, 4 November 2003</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="9" Minute="35"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>9:35 a.m.</span></font></st1:time><font size=2
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fw: Fear and control
(waxing lyrical)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Robyn -- lovely image!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>This conversation reminds me of one from last January
called "self-organization is what consciousness (spirit) does".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I pulled this snippet of mine from it:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family: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>
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>Since I left </span></font><st1:place><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Whidbey Island</span></font></st1:place><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>, 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>
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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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Peggy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: "Robyn" <<a
href="mailto:pov@IINET.NET.AU">pov@IINET.NET.AU</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>To: <<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sent: </span></font><st1:date Month="11" Day="3"
Year="2003">Monday, November 03, 2003</st1:date> <st1:time Hour="6" Minute="22">6:22
AM</st1:time><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Subject: Re: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>> 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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