Joy in Life - Joy is Life
"Life is too precious to take it seriously…" There is joy and laughter in everything! 
Special thank you’s to the beautiful people I met over the last weekend at the "edge of emergence" dialogue and retreat! It was a privilege to meet you and be part of the changes together..and to find myself and joy again…and to dance!
Double light to you all - ’til soon.
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October 17th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Dear storyteller,
it was a precious gift to met you and lear from your stories.
Storytelling is maybe the oldest way people used to learn and to teach. Still several cultures transfer their knowledge through this beautiful way.
I am sure that, as in the poem of T.S. Elliot, going back to the beginning means too: learning again from storytelling.
Hope to keep on listening to your fabulous stories.
Sailor
October 17th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Andres - thank you!!!
And you have said something SO important - a KEY - that poem has always been interpretted by me as one about personal search and growth and yet you have just widened my eperience of it to the global - the need to go back and explore ancient practices that WORKED, to the beginning, and bring them into the now…and know them, as if, for the first time
October 18th, 2006 at 1:32 am
this is too synchronicitious to NOT report: on the 14th I was on a dialogue retreat where I re-discovered the JOY in everything, including despair and the things that are going on in the world. It must have been in the air - Dave Pollard reported on this the next day, in the context of the ever fabulous Tom Robbin’s http://radiocomments.userland.com/commentstrackback?u=2007&p=1675
“rediscover playfulness, or what the Tibetan Buddhists call Crazy Wisdom — “the wisdom that evolves when one, while refusing to avert one’s gaze from the sorrows and injustices of the world, insists on joy in spite of everything”. ” what Joseph Campbell calls “the rapture of being alive:
thank you Dave for connecting me further into this concept - which I am clear is so crucial…how can I / we save the world if we as individuals are not carrying around healthy joy filled worlds and spaces of our own. Even in times of despair and the weight of the world - rather than taking on the weight I choose to be filled with the light of the world. It only takes a little light to dispell a lot of darkness.
There is joy everywhere.
October 18th, 2006 at 3:30 am
Have been thinking of the story about ‘how moving a grain of sand changes the desert’ in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -
“a young boy and his father are having a conversation. The boy wants a solution to “the problem of how relatively insignificant we are.” The father then gradually tells him that even if he moves a single grain of sand in the Sahara, he has nonetheless changed the desert. The key is not to do it alone. Share your knowledge, your passion, and even your guilt! Moving one grain of sand is a great start. Moving a hundred, a thousand, a million, all one grain at a time? Now that’s action.”
(as could only remember the gist and my book is in sydney I found this musing via google on http://www.charityguide.org/volunteer/miriam/ask-miriam.htm)
A waterfall starts with a drop - Power of One