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  Alex Chua : Clarity Coach

I turned my face for a moment... ...

Alex Chua said Jul 30, 2006, 10:19 PM:
 

The following is from The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul at Work by David Whyte

Sometime ago at AT&T I found myself working with a roomful of particularly thoughtful managers. We were looking at the way human beings find it necessary to sacrifice their own sacred desires and personal visions on the altar of work and success. Out of this a woman
wrote the following lines. She read them slowly from the back of the room, unaware how stricken we all were by the silence she created.

Ten years ago…
I turned my face for a moment
and it became my life.

We have patience for everything but what is most important to us. We look at the life of our own most central imaginings and see it beckon. For the most part we have not the courage to follow it, but we do not have the courage to leave it. We turn our face for a moment and tell ourselves we will be sure to get back to it. When we look again ten years have passed and
we wonder what in God's name happened to us.

I turned my face for a moment
and it became my life.

  michael : Flow Facilitator

Re: I turned my face for a moment... ...

michael said Jul 31, 2006, 1:47 AM:
 

nice story

hows the reading of the celestine going?

have you read secret to shambala?
  Alex Chua : Clarity Coach

Re: I turned my face for a moment... ...

Alex Chua said Jul 31, 2006, 4:00 AM:
 

The more I read, the more this book reaffirms my own experience in a symbolic way. In fact, it even feels like I have unconsciously tapped into this collective consciousness & “copied” Jame's interpretation!

Anyone want to share more about The Secret of Shambhala (The Eleventh Insight)?

How can we use the latent power of our minds to co-create our collective future?

How can we use prayer/meditation to generate fields of positive intention that have the potential to become the foundational fabric for our evolution or transcendence to a higher plane of vibration… or just simply to co-create a better world to live in?

Global Meditation with Zaadz, a pod by Annette might be worth a look.
  Alex Chua : Clarity Coach

Re: I turned my face for a moment... ...

Alex Chua said Jul 31, 2006, 4:03 AM:
 

Another big fat Sync…

I found the following in my inbox right after replying to michael's post!

JULY 31, 2006 World Prayer Project / Live Teleconference

If you have difficulty reading this email, please go to http://www.celestinevision.com/worldprayer.html


Urgent! With the violence in the Middle East increasing,
help us increase the amount of prayer going to that area.

Let's join together wherever we are with other World Prayer Project members as we connect inwardly with the spirit of the one God of Love.

In a visualization we actively hold in our minds, feel this energy of love filling us all and moving out to those who have been affected by this crisis.

Let us visualize that those who are responsible for these tensions and explosions, move into their best and highest wisdom, where they realize that the harming of innocents out of anger is never justified.

We ask that those who were harmed or who have had loved ones harmed are comforted in their time of crisis, and that the awareness of the world grow into a place where conflicts are actively resolved.  

Prayer research indicates that the more of us that pray together, and the more consciously connected we are, the more effective the prayer. Join us in this World Prayer Project by participating in this effort and encouraging others to join us as well.

Also, for a more focused and consciously connected prayer and discussion, join us for another free phone conference on Tuesday, August 1, 2006.

This conference will focus on 1) joining together in ever greater numbers to consciously focus prayer on the Middle East;  2) build a connected spiritual awareness and synchronistic flow in our personal lives; and 3) create a greater sense of community and support by linking together.    

Free Teleconference
Tuesday, August 1
8-9 pm EDT
1-646-519-5883
PIN# 2230
The phone line will open at 7:55.

The conference is free, with each of us dialing in and paying for our own long-distance phone charges (less than $2 in most cases). Let us know if you plan to participate, and please pass the word on to your friends who might be interested in joining us.    

Blessings,
James Redfield
Salle Merrill Redfield
www.celestinevision.com


Extending Prayer Fields
For centuries, religious scriptures, poems, and philosophies
have pointed to a latent power of mind within all of us that mysteriously
helps to affect what occurs in the future. We are now finding that this prayer power
is a field of intention, which moves out from us and can be extended and strengthened, especially when we connect with others in a common vision.
—THE ELEVENTH INSIGHT
We respect your right to privacy and will never share your email address with others.
©2006 James Redfield
 

Re: I turned my face for a moment... ...

yosyama [no longer around] said Aug 2, 2006, 12:51 PM:
 

i was born in Tel Aviv and am now here again.

This prayer touched me and i wish to add a few words of my own.

Let us pray that the opposing sides will find their opponents wise and beautiful and full of love as they really are…! 

I know it is too much to ask now while the loud and disturbing shouts and cries of war are blowing in this hot wind of hatred.  

I am praying so you turn your faces for a moment…

May it be please true NOW

yama
 
  Peter : Global Nomad

Re: I turned my face for a moment... ...

Peter said Jul 31, 2006, 10:17 AM:
 

One of my all-time favorite books. And a very poignant quote.

Perhaps the greatest challenge (or is it a hurdle?) we face is that transition from being “other-referencing” to becoming “self-referencing,” so we can actually be awake to our own truth, rather than sleepwalk through life.

Namaste,
Peter