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Thank you all for being who you are, for doing what you say, for exemplifying the principles and practice that you "preach;" for allowing dreams and poetry and "vibes" and the arts and sciences and the flux of the universe and inner wisdom to flow into your lives and share that with others; for bearing witness to the reality of personal experience and knowledge that is ancient, continuous and timely; for thinking the best of others, giving the benefit of the doubt, for your generosity and patience; for helping me accept others as they are and not expect more until they are ready. So mote it be.

For exemplifying your integration of behavior with your beliefs so completely during a real test, that provided evidence and proof of the principles beyond all doubt, with impeccable and beautiful simplicity.

The buzzwords and blatant mocking of our shared ideas requires a "safe place" that is also public. Yet the fixation with this subject expresses real interest and more than a mechanism for mistreatment. The wise words may sink through the shields and blockages simply by being transmitted, in ways that God or Gawd or Dog or Gawds or Goddess or Buddha or NoGod or Might-Be-A-God-Not-Sure-What-It-Is or "Reality=Science" or the Universe or Flying Spaghetti Monster only knows.

The lovingkindness in action here is on display for all to see; is an eyeopener for anyone willing to see; and a source of great distraction and enlightenment for those fixated and fascinated by what they refuse to see.

Thank you all.

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Wishadoo is awesome! How is it going?

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the dream I had this morning was for you. It was a great adventure, made more exciting by friends and seeming "enemies" taking action, making blunders, giving gifts of laughter and of pain. But it was all a part of the adventure--all actions and actors were needed to make it work. This was the message I got from it, anyway. If there is wisdom to be gained from it, I think it is this: to remember the adventure is the key, and that, underneath it all, is Life and Light that is unknowable except through Being.

"All actions and actors" under the same sky and the voice in the wildness, pointing at the sky and bleating "remember common cause in the progressive era"?

The answer is no. Too much damage has been done, we are too far from that now, too many were there and don't remember or weren't born yet; too many changes and regression toward a niche mentality, protected by brand america, divorced from personal responsiblity (except to be patriotic consumers).

Trying to point out the big picture more of us once saw is pointless. It is gone, too much intentionally done to dismantle it. Now the tendency is to "win" by shooting *ourselves* in the foot.

So be it.

"If there is wisdom to be gained from it, I think it is this: to remember the adventure is the key, and that, underneath it all, is Life and Light that is unknowable except through Being."

This is the only way to accept that three decades of dismantling the work of the previous three, while the patriotic consumers marched on to their assigned niches, while the whole rigged game was turned into a hollowed out contraption teetering on air, while it took near complete collapse for people to near completely wake up, that the efforts and progression and common cause are not lost; that it did have to unfold in the way it has and will continue to.

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The ASAH members are truly wonderful. :hug:

IMHO. Being able to brush off the negative vibes others exude.

Let them think, say and do whatever they want. It doesn't change my reality or peace-of-mind.

The whole Universe is a safe-haven, if you really think about it.

Great post, thanks.

My blind spot is a vision for potential, for common ground.

As for "whatever they want," in this community there are rules for that.

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ness and light :pals: