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Someone copied me this, today...
"Andrew and fellow learners, because of my deteriorating medical
condition, I cannot participate as before on the LO-list. Please have
patience with me, but do not get concerned. Since I am not yet dead,
it is not any matter of any concern. Let us be happy! I repeat, I am
not dead. I am merely taking a rest. The spirit lives on, even though
the body may die. Is that not a wonderful thought? Let us learn
together -- the spirit of the LO. "
and she writes ...
(Andrew.)...I think I emailed you some time ago... long time ago...
about how much it intrigues/delights/horrifies me, the degree of
separation between one person and another, that even those closest can
never know each other completely - or even much. It takes a life time
to get to know somebody at all... and then there is always more.
When At dies, and like he says, he is not dead yet, so much will go
with him, that he cannot pass on to others. Either because he knows
so much there isn't time, or because he knows it so deeply it is
incommunicable. And the same when anyone dies. How much wastage! how
much loss! Can you imagine the horrorif At, particularly At, but
anyone, dies, and we have not taken the effort to learn as much
beforehand?To learn is such a desparate priority... and the way is
through closeness to those- all- that we can learn from. Or as you
might say, through love.
Part of me wants towrite to At and say "At! teach me! Teach me
everything! Teach me the most important thing! What do I need to
know?!" There is so much... I would have needed to ask a millenia
ago.... and in any case, I have other things to learn and other ways
of learning that are my own. And the last thing At needs is scatty
women he's never met taking up his precious time. But what would he
say if I did ask him that? What could any wise teacher say to such a
question... what is the most important thing, the thing that means I
can learn everything I need to know, to cross that separation that
prevents learning? I suspect I know....
Many years ago, somebody asked another wise teacher, "teacher, what is
the most important thing?" and the teacher replied "love.......? "
end citations.
I know from At formally that, -" the temporary has to dismantle itself
in order to enter the Eternal."
and that...''Love-as-Agape is the highest level of emergence open to
us.''
It is written - Jesus said on His Cross. "It is finished."
What is then left for us to do?
Learn and explore within, without and through...
The Five Sustainers of Human Creativity and The Seven Essentialities.
"I have other things to learn and other ways of learning that are my
own."
i think that is how Wholeness works, by seeing you, your own. Wasn't
it you who told me about the white lamb in the field of black sheep?
I Corinthians13
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have
love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the
gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I
have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am
nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I
surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me
nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does
not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not
seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong
suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the
truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of
prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will
cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in
part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial
will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child,
think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did
away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then
face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I
also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these
three; but the greatest of these is love.
i just did what i know At does in a playful and constructive way to
mine for informations ;-)
and i received
http://www.learning-org.com/01.08/0097.html
http://www.learning-org.com/01.08/0095.html
http://www.learning-org.com/01.08/0096.html
there, M...keep playing the learning game, like a little kid,
(kinder)....running recklessly around the garden, but, mind ;-) the
flowers and mind the butterflies and mind all the delicate ephemeral
living things.
It is not linear time yet for the old desert wolf to lay down with the
Lamb - i hear tell he plays with fish ;-) and he is happy.
love,
andrew
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