<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Amen!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 23, 2023, at 08:20, Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">~~~~~I wanted to share this from Chief White Eagle: </b><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This moment that humanity is living can be seen as a door or a hole. The <span class="" style="font-family: inherit;"><a tabindex="-1" class="" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); font-family: inherit;"></a></span>decision to fall into the hole or walk through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24/7, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you’ll fall into this hole.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to care for yourself and others, then you will walk through the portal.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself you take care of everybody else at the same time.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a wider view. There is a social demand in this crisis, but also a spiritual one. They go hand in hand.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your own toolbox and use whatever tools you have.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and we are exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t feel guilty for feeling blessed in these trying times. Being sad or angry doesn't help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have the right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do it than maintain a beautiful, happy, and bright posture.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It's a resistance strategy.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we walk through the threshold, we have a new view of the world because we faced our fears and difficulties. This is all you can do now:</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Serenity in the storm.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Keep calm, pray everyday.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Develop a habit of meeting the saint everyday.</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Show resilience through art, joy, trust and love."</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chief of the Hopi Indians White Eagle</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 9, 2021</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>