A weekend seminar with Walter Lubeck

Still digesting all we learnt and covered.

Saturday: Kanseya Shaynar; Three Rays Meditation: meditation for forgiveness.

A powerful tool for forgiving, including, of course, oneself.

Sunday: Love Magic

If they had been aware of the group of people in Toberonochy Hall talking about sex on a Sunday morning, the good folk from the Kirk up the road would probably have raided us

Some wonderful insights into relationships and how they work (or don’t), with some tools for helping to fix them.

More when I have begun to digest it all…….

Attentiveness

The time is now, the place is here, the time of life is today

Dorothee Soelle

The need to diet

The need to diet, well accepted in relation to food, should be brought to bear on our relation to knowledge, people, and ideas. Our minds, no less than our bodies, require periods of fasting. ~ Alain de Botton

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY, 2011

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
                                                                 
For Immediate Release                           January 14, 2011
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY, 2011
- - - - - - -
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Our Nation was founded on a shared commitment to the values
of justice, freedom, and equality.  On Religious Freedom Day,
we commemorate Virginia's 1786 Statute for Religious Freedom,
in which Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men shall be free to
profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters
of religion."  The fundamental principle of religious freedom --
guarded by our Founders and enshrined in our Constitution's
First Amendment -- continues to protect rich faiths flourishing
within our borders.
The writ of the Founding Fathers has upheld the ability
of Americans to worship and practice religion as they choose,
including the right to believe in no religion at all.  However,
these liberties are not self-sustaining, and require a stalwart
commitment by each generation to preserve and apply them. 
Throughout our Nation's history, our founding ideal of religious
freedom has served as an example to the world.  Though our
Nation has sometimes fallen short of the weighty task of
ensuring freedom of religious expression and practice, we have
remained a Nation in which people of different faiths coexist
with mutual respect and equality under the law.  America's
unshakeable commitment to religious freedom binds us together
as a people, and the strength of our values underpins a country
that is tolerant, just, and strong.
My Administration continues to defend the cause of
religious freedom in the United States and around the world. 
At home, we vigorously protect the civil rights of Americans,
regardless of their religious beliefs.  Across the globe, we
also seek to uphold this human right and to foster tolerance
and peace with those whose beliefs differ from our own.  We bear
witness to those who are persecuted or attacked because of their
faith.  We condemn the attacks made in recent months against
Christians in Iraq and Egypt, along with attacks against people
of all backgrounds and beliefs.  The United States stands with
those who advocate for free religious expression and works to
protect the rights of all people to follow their conscience,
free from persecution and discrimination.
On Religious Freedom Day, let us reflect on the principle
of religious freedom that has guided our Nation forward, and
recommit to upholding this universal human right both at home
and around the world. 
 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in
me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do
hereby proclaim January 16, 2011, as Religious Freedom Day. 
I call on all Americans to commemorate this day with events
and activities that teach us about this critical foundation
of our Nation's liberty, and to show us how we can protect it
for future generations here and around the world.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.

BARACK OBAMA

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Why am I afraid for him?

After Tucson

We recognize our own mortality, and are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame - but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in bettering the lives of others.

Barack Obama

The Road Not Taken

 

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;
       

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,
       

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.
       

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.
       

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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