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“To be anything other than Fully Incarnate is a cop-out.”

The words a close friend (a Christian priest) said to me (on my Taoist spiritual path) when I was chairing a big inner city community association. We were discussing our frustrations about how difficult it was to persuade anyone to voluntarily get up and physically move their bodies to a place where they could come together with others to DO things. In community spaces, in person, hands on, to commit to work together to catalyse changes.

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“You won’t change anything from the outside, you must get up and get yourself elected to the inside”

The words a UK MP said to me when I was part of protest groups trying to make some tall and loud waves both locally and nationally. He was right and I did it for some years but everyone’s Politics got in the way. Except in cross party sub-committees and working groups where we all met in person, looked each other in the eye, saw exactly the same passion for doing and being catalysts and worked together.

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“Watch, perceive, listen, feel … find empty space, now flow in to it”

The words of a tai chi master with limited English, physically teaching me an aspect of a martial application I was struggling with.

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“We all need some martial spirit in life”

Words said by my beloved

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So yes, yes and yes again to all you have said here Caroline!

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