<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, без засечек;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28914">My goodness! So unexpected! I remember meeting him in a training led by Marv and Sandra in 2003 in Potsdam, if I'm not mistaken.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28936">I was taken by his playfulness and poetry. And I remember thinking, "Gosh, I'd love to have that sense of lightness, open-heartedness, presence, and play when I'm his age."</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28962">What a gift he is/was to the world.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span>Florian offered the poem/reflection for Living Peace in 2007.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28885" dir="ltr"><span>Raffi</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28881"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28881"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28881"><pre style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Monaco, Menlo, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; padding: 9.5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.42857; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-radius: 4px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_29005" class="">Living peace
Florian Fischer
There is a special space
where I'm studying peace,
studying almost permanently,
how to welcome peace, how to practice peace,
how to hold peace, how to live peace:
It is the space between
»This is what I intended - but this is what happened*.
An interval, a void, a break, a silence.
It is the difference between frustration and acceptance,
it is the way from No to Yes - and from Yes to No,
it is the insight, that imagination,
not only sometimes but every time,
switches to illusion in the moment of realisation,
it is the deep breathe before agreeing the change,
and when it seems another person is changing my mind,
it is the space to transform
my ill humor about dependance into humbleness
to see that they themselves are not less dependent.
Sometimes it is the waiting-room
to host a thrilling idea from conception to birth,
sometimes it is an open space where a fear disappears
and something dissolves just like that.
In any case it is the playground between my own self
and the self which is working on self-organization.
It is all only about my inner peace,
my only possible contribution to peace in the world.
Rodalquilar, 30.12.2007
</pre><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_29007" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_29009" class=""></div></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28884"><span id="cursor">**************</span><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28937"><span style="color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28963">There is a societal ill that Pindostani civilization is loathe to acknowledge. It is far more dangerous than hubris. We call it<span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;"> false immodesty</span></span><span style="color:rgb(101, 33, 145);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28938"><span style="color:rgb(101, 33, 145);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28939"><span style="color:rgb(101, 33, 145);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28960">From <span style="font-style:italic;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28959">The Pindostani Primer: Celebrating Being Amerikan as a Generative Pejorative.</span> By Imam Aftandollah the Overimpressive</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446414439919_28940"><br></div></div></div></body></html>