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   Editor, The Great Leap (LT) on August 6, 2011 at 9:06 pm

   A couple more excerpts:

   [18:15] In our community, holding the first meeting we had, there were long stretches of silence. Some people told me that they were confused, even a little upset by that — looking at it, thinking, “Don’t these people care? Don’t they have feelings?” To me it was more, and I think for many people in the room: the enormity of the situation, the intensity of our feelings, was too big to know how to wrap it inside words and ideas. We could speak of it in vignettes. But the words under the words, the ideas, the sentiments underneath what we were saying, kept drawing us back into a silence, a witnessing, a holding, a place of knowing that this is a time of not knowing. Not knowing what to do. Not knowing what’s next. But holding still, letting something in its tenderness reverberate, discover itself. Letting something in its tenderness start to experience, “Hm, what is this new world? How shall we relate to it? How shall we relate to each other?”

   The inner work of practice is to discover the conceptually simple, but — within the forces of our life — elusive and subtle, the simple of work of practice is that we let the force of life continually open us, invite us into a presence that’s bigger than the thoughts we have about it.

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   [34:40] So as we go through our healing process here as a community, the “tell me” is not just an inner dialogue. It’s a collective dialogue, that we will move forward together, that we will grieve together, that we will rediscover together, that we will learn that there is a reciprocity between inside and outside, that life is fierce and life is beautiful.

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   Tricia on August 11, 2011 at 9:06 pm

   Thanks for the words of encouragement….this is a difficult time. t

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   Mary on August 21, 2011 at 9:06 pm

   It was a beautiful talk on by Paul. So inspiring.
   Such grief, such pain going on around us. Surrounded by love but unable reach it or feel it for ones self.
   I didnt know David but he seems to have made an impression on thoes around him. Now he has his peace.
   Thank you for this opportunity to learn about loss and salvation;
   tenderness and vunerabality. I just thought I should “tell you”

   Love
   Mary