“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 bodie…
“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!
“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.
—-//
“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.
——-
“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.
———-
“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!