Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00351)

 Seasons Greetings



from





Valerie and Dallas
TenBroeck





from our home to your home may there be peace, love, and
understanding



May 2004 be indeed a good year for you and yours




--==oo0oo==--



Some thoughts:



A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "universe,"
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
people near us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by
widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert
Einstein



Does the road wind up-hill all the
way? 

Yes, to the very end.

Does the journey take the whole long
day?

>From morn to night, my friend.
--- Christina Rossetti







That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession,

We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,

We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,

Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,

We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the

disputers: nor anything
that is asserted,

We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies,


recriminations on every
side,

They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,

Yet we walk unpheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down
till we make our
ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,

Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to
come, may prove
brethren and lovers as we are.



-- Walt
Whitman, ( The World's Work) 



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