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color=#008080>Dear Mayke,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=640231302-02112004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#008080>Knowing that you are connected, gives me hope and
confidence!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=1><EM><STRONG>Invoking the
wisdom and capacity of the human spirit! </STRONG></EM></FONT></P>
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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>Mayke Wagner,
essence<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2004 1:06 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Lots of Inspiring
Words<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Thanks, Anne, for sharing these words from Clarissa
Pikola-Estes with us! I was deeply moved when I read them. They describe
beautifully what I feel like facing the elections tomorrow. As a German
citizen I cannot vote - at the same time I feel deeply affected by the
politics of the U.S.. A friend of mine asked me today, how I handle this
powerlessness and my answer was the following:<BR>I try not to be discouraged
by the things happening far away from me. I try to make a difference for the
people around me, "to stand up and show my soul", to listen and serve.<BR>And
although most of the people in this list are far away, I feel a strong
connection with you all - which gives me hope and confidence!<BR>Thanks
to all of
you,<BR><BR>Mayke<BR>___________________________________________<BR>essence -
Beratung, Training, Coaching<BR>Mayke Wagner<BR>Hanser 3<BR>88279
Amtzell<BR>GERMANY<BR><BR>mayke.wagner@t-e-a-m.org<BR>Tel (+49) 07520 / 9232
02<BR>visit us: <http://www.t-e-a-m.org><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><B>Von: </B>anne stadler
<annestad@nwlink.com><BR><B>Antworten an: </B>OSLIST
<OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU><BR><B>Datum: </B>Mon, 1 Nov 2004
11:34:13 -0800<BR><B>An: </B>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Betreff:
</B>[OSLIST] Lots of Inspiring Words<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#40007f><FONT size=4>Do Not Lose Heart<BR></FONT>by
Clarissa Pinkola-Estes<BR>author of Women Who Run With the
Wolves<BR></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>Do not lose heart. We were made
for these times. I have <BR>heard from so many recently who are deeply and
properly bewildered. <BR>They are concerned about the state of affairs
in our world right now. <BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>Ours is a
time of almost daily<BR>astonishment and often righteous rage over the
latest <BR>degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary
people.<BR><BR>You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris
<BR>some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children,
<BR>elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is
<BR>breathtaking. <BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>Yet, I urge you,
ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit <BR>dry by bewailing
these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most <BR>particularly
because, the fact is, we were made for these times. <BR>Yes. For years, we
have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just <BR>waiting to
meet on this exact plain of engagement.<BR>I grew up on the Great Lakes and
recognize a seaworthy <BR>vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls,
there have <BR>never been more able crafts in the waters than there are
right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to
signal one another as never <BR>before in the history of humankind...
<BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>Look out over the prow; there are
millions of boats of<BR>righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though
your <BR>veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure
you that <BR>the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a
greater <BR>forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms,
to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.<BR>We have
been in training for a dark time such as this, <BR>since the day we assented
to come to Earth. For many decades, worldwide, <BR>souls just like us have
been felled and left for dead, in so many ways, over <BR>and over brought
down by (word missing here), by lack of love, <BR>by being ambushed and
assaulted by various<BR>cultural and personal shocks in the extreme.
<BR>We have a history of being gutted, and yet remember this
especially, we have also, of necessity, perfected the knack of resurrection.
<BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>Over and over again we have been
the<BR>living proof that that which has been exiled, lost, or <BR>foundered
can be restored to life again.<BR>In any dark time, there is a tendency to
veer toward <BR>fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world.
<BR>Do not focus on that. <BR>There is a tendency, too, to fall into being
weakened by persevering <BR>on what is outside your reach, by what cannot
yet be. Do not focus there. <BR>That is spending the wind without raising
the sails. <BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>We are needed, that is
all we can know. <BR>And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet
great <BR>souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know
them when they <BR>appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you
say you pledged to <BR>listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace?
Don't you remember <BR>that to be in grace means to submit to the voice
greater?<BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>Understand the paradox: If
you study the physics of a <BR>waterspout, you will see that the outer
vortex whirls far more quickly than <BR>the inner one. To calm the storm
means to quiet the outer layer, to cause <BR>it to swirl much less, to more
evenly match the velocity of the inner core -<BR>till whatever has been
lifted into such a vicious funnel falls back to <BR>Earth, lays down, is
peaceable again. <BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>One of the most
important steps you can take to help<BR>calm the storm is to not allow
yourself to be taken in a <BR>flurry of overwrought emotion or desperation,
thereby accidentally <BR>contributing to the swale and the
swirl.<BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>Ours is not the task of
fixing the entire world all at <BR>once, but of stretching out to mend the
part of the world that is <BR>within our reach. Any small, calm thing that
one soul can do to help another <BR>soul, to assist some portion of this
poor suffering world, will help <BR>immensely. It is not given to us to know
which acts or by whom, will cause the <BR>critical mass to tip toward an
enduring good. What is needed for dramatic <BR>change is an accumulation of
acts, adding, adding to, adding more, <BR>continuing.
<BR></B></FONT><BR><FONT color=#40007f><B>We know that it does not take
"everyone on Earth" to bring <BR>justice and peace, but only a small,
determined group who will not give up <BR>during the first, second, or
hundredth gale.<BR>One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do
<BR>to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul
on <BR>deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws
sparks, <BR>can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters
to catch fire. <BR>To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like
these - to be <BR>fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of
immense bravery and <BR>greatest necessity.<BR><BR>Struggling souls catch
light from other souls who are <BR>fully lit and willing to show it. If you
would help to calm the tumult, this is <BR>one of the strongest things you
can do.<BR><BR>There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I
<BR>too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair
<BR>for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.
The <BR>reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you.
It is <BR>that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to
Earth, <BR>who you serve, and who sent you here. <BR>The good words we say
and the good deeds we do <BR>are not ours: They are the words and deeds of
the One who brought us here. <BR>In that spirit, I hope you will write this
on your wall:<BR>When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe,
<BR>there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built
for.<BR><BR>This comes with much love and prayer that you remember <BR>who
you came from, and why you came to this beautiful,<BR>needful
Earth.<BR><BR></B></FONT><BR><BR><BR>* *
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