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Date Posted: 12:45:24 06/14/03 Sat
Author: Rev Joe
Subject: Re: where
In reply to: june 's message, "Re: where" on 09:43:56 06/14/03 Sat

I believe - no, strike that - I KNOW we are here to learn, and that everything that happens to us, bad as well as good, is a part of the curiculum.

I also understand that the one universal duty of each person on Earth is to try and relieve the suffering of others - heck, all living things - whenever we encounter it.

The predicament then becomes: do we have a right to try and relieve someone else's suffering, when that suffering may well contain important lessons for them? As with all things of the spirit, there is no black & white answer. It's all part of the cosmic dance. As a wiser person than me once said, "Do what you do with another person, but never put them out of your heart."

Or I could quote Gandhi-ji again - he said something to this effect: If each one of us made it our life's work to make sure that no one we came into contact with ever wanted for anything, we would have Heaven here on Earth.

Most people imprison themselves, and the bars and walls are made of fear. And oddly, one of the reason so many criminals keep returning to prison is because they fear the world outside the walls of the institution. Despite the violence and confinement, they feel more comfortable in that world and quite often seek to return to it. Isn't it amazing what we do to ourselves? The horrible world we create, that exists nowhere but in our own minds. "As you think, so shall you be."

I saw a refrigerator magnet one that said: The mind is a dangerous neighborhood - don't go there alone...

And to answer your question, June, I'm in the Los Angeles area.

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