<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you so much Riantee and Ron and Tomas. Beautiful and wise words that helps my heart . I appreciate you .<div><br></div><div>Much love, R<div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 6, 2024, at 10:16 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Thank you so much Marc for this amazing photograph and . . . in spite of everything,<div>we will find a way!<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 4, 2024, at 20:00, Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Many thanks Ron for this beautiful sharing of your heart ~ and your wonderful chain of thoughts here.</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Really helped me focus and find more perspective ~ ~~~~~~ yow! ~~ fasten your seat belt ~ !!!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: center;">re: Tomas</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="text-align: center;">We<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>are</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>important ~ and quite powerful in the sense that everything we say think or do matters.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Creating that response to bring more love and light for the greatest good.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">May it be so ~ as we move through this trying time. ~ m. 💛⚡️</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="cid:5259BD94-4762-4BC3-BA5B-E9B9EAA7BC0C@lan"><International-Landscape-Photographer-Year-22659-Nate-Merz-Finding-a-Way.jpg></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">International-Landscape-Photographer of the Year ~ Nate-Merz ~ Finding-a-Way</font></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 4, 2024, at 10:57 AM, Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">NOV. 4th 2024 </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><font>🙏</font></span><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">~ Good Morning Community with Love in my heart ~</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">~ I was up and awake at 5 a.m. this morning ~ I noticed aliveness in the atmosphere ~ Mother Ocean stirring in the distance and </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">I thought of Her lapping the shore day and night and tomorrow and day after and into all the days and nights that follow~. </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">She is in perfect rhythm with the Sun, Moon, Planets/Stars and our Universe among Universes far</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">beyond our notions of what constitutes our comprehensive knowing~. </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">~ I suddenly felt the contrast of the vast empty space I was exploring with a sense of unlimited presence </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">when my 6:00 a.m. alarm sounded and I was suddenly startled as though shocked into this reality as I jumped out of bed with morning words~.</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">~ My morning Prayer has been a spoken, whispered tradition since I was in my 20’s: </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">“I greet this day with Love in my heart” </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">❤️</span><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3">…then, a chain of </font></span><font size="3">thoughts suddenly appeared like a train pulling into the station, steaming and whistling with it’s immense weight </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">pressed against the steel tracks~. I was suddenly reminded of the emails streaming in with pleas of who to vote for, as though the weight of </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">fear that tipped the fingers of the sender would be the All of Everything dependent upon something to be decided with a very specific choice~. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">~ Then I suddenly felt the pain of those with disappointment who have put their all into political proselytizing and hope, who are to be disappointed, </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">heart broken and emotionally disturbed, distraught, angered etc. And oh the judgements that are sure to follow with even more </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">distain than has already colored the ethers with name calling and negative vibrations~. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">~ Suddenly, the thought of those with rejoicing hearts and minds were present in my morning rumination as well ~ The fortunate, so called “winners", in this realm </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">of duality ~ that somehow like the Sun, Moon, Planets/Stars and our Universe among Universes are in perfect balance.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">~ So, I went Swimming in the early morning NEW LIGHT </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">Stay in the Light and Talk to the Water </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">Only Love, Ron </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">~~~~~~~~Below is a beautiful morning piece that inspired me to write my thoughts above~. </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">Good friend of many years ~ Writer, Teacher and a Keeper,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span style="font-size: inherit;">Receiver</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"> and </span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Giver</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"> of the Light~. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="cid:E4E8E79B-2F1A-47DE-A793-F41EB6F31E93"><IMG_0128.jpeg></span></div><font color="#5856d6"><br></font><span style="font-size: large;">Hola Relatives -</span><br><font color="#5856d6" size="4"><br></font><span style="font-size: large;"> I can’t help but be aware of, as I am sure you are as well, the increasing fear-fueled tension in the energy field as we move closer to the soon-to-be upon us elections, noticing our own feelings and what we hear from those around us. Tension brings contraction, tightness, harder to breath, harder to be open and relaxed given the possible outcomes of whatever way the election and its aftermath goes. Facing into the abyss of the unknown, outcomes in bigger hands. </span><br><font color="#5856d6" size="4"><br></font><span style="font-size: large;">This morning lying in bed with sunlight streaming in through the window as I did my early morning thanksgiving prayers and meditations, three thought waves came through that I offer as stimulus for reflection that might help release reactivity, open the mind, soften the body, open the heart and sooth the soul, though for sure not the ego.</span><br><font color="#5856d6" size="4"><br></font><span style="font-size: large;">First a question - </span><br><font color="#5856d6" size="4"><br></font><span style="font-size: large;">With such fear of death so prevalent in these trying times, what if, we are already dead and are existing in a bardo state to work out what ever we need to work out for release from the tunnel returning back home into the Bliss of Infinite Oneness from whence we came but forgot when birthed into our human incarnation?</span><br><font color="#5856d6" size="4"><br></font><span style="font-size: large;">Second a poem from Nancy Wood’s book, </span><i><font size="4">Many Winters</font></i><br><font color="#5856d6" size="4"><span><i><br></i></span></font><font size="4"><i>We are not important</i><br><i>Our lives are simply threads</i><br><i>Pulling along the lasting thoughts</i><br><i>Which travel through time that way</i></font></div><div style="text-align: start;"><font size="4"><i><br></i></font></div><div style="text-align: start;"><font size="4"><i>(<i>wondering what the “lasting thoughts” are for you?)</i><br></i></font><font color="#5856d6" size="4"><br></font><span style="font-size: large;">Last, a seasonal relevant poem, “Autumn”, by Rainer</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Maria Rilke to empower faith in these challenging times.</span><br><font size="4"><font color="#5856d6"><span><br></span></font><i>The leaves are falling, falling as from far.</i><br><i>as though above were withering farthest gardens;</i><br><i>they fall with a denying attitude.</i><br><font color="#5856d6"><span><i><br></i></span></font><i>And night by night, down into solitude,</i><br><i>the heavy earth falls far from every star.</i><br><font color="#5856d6"><span><i><br></i></span></font><i>We are all falling. This hand’s falling too —</i><br><i>all have this falling sickness none withstands.</i><br><font color="#5856d6"><span><i><br></i></span></font><i>And yet there’s One whose gently-holding hands</i></font><br><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font size="4"><i>this universal falling can’t fall through</i></font></div></div></div><div style="text-align: start;"><div><br></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Remembering the Underlying Oneness in which we all live may we also remember that no matter what happens each of us has the ability to create a response to it that helps us grow in the ways we want to grow, hopefully bringing more healing light and love into the world for Greatest Good Healing of the Sacred Hoop of Life we are gifted to live in</font></div></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">All Blessings.</font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">love, tomás</font></div><div style="text-align: start; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span id="cid:D4D55819-C6F1-4230-97BA-5338F5B5904D"><image-generation-dLj9mJg94CNKnURU2KrkmH3BwgZ2-1729041515808-result.jpeg></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="text-align: start;"></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress">https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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