<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dearest Marc….once again you hit the mark for me/ us……this is exquisite and so beautiful to know, be reminded of and read ……especially in times like this when so many are feeling despair….yes, when you come past the pairs of<div>opposites, you have reached compassion……..and herein lies the healing balm of these times. Thank you always for your elevated reflections and sharing. ♥️ T<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 31, 2025, at 3:45 PM, Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Something that seems to keep popping up lately ~</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Was on my desk this morning.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">Has always been my firm conviction</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">that we are informed at the deepest levels</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">by our Compassion.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">w/love,</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none">~m. 🙏 💛⚡️</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none"><span id="cid:3EDE4E74-19FA-4020-BBD8-499C4970A868@lan"><IMG_0026.jpg></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">It is by going down into the abyss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">that we recover the treasures of life.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">Where you stumble</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">there lies your treasure.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">The very cave you are afraid to enter</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">turns out to be the source of</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">what you are looking for.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">The damned thing in the cave</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">that was so dreaded</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">has become the center.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">You find the jewel</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">and it draws you off.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">In loving the spiritual</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">you cannot despise the earthly.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">The purpose of the journey</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">is compassion.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">When you have come past </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">the pairs of opposites</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">you have reached compassion.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">The goal </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">is to bring the jewel back to the world</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-kerning: none">to join the two things together. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">🌟</span><span style="font-kerning: none"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; min-height: 28px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is by going down into the abyss</div><div style="text-align: center;">that we recover the treasures of life.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">Where you stumble</div><div style="text-align: center;">there lies your treasure.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">The very cave you are afraid to enter</div><div style="text-align: center;">turns out to be the source of</div><div style="text-align: center;">what you are looking for.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">The damned thing in the cave</div><div style="text-align: center;">that was so dreaded</div><div style="text-align: center;">has become the center.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">You find the jewel</div><div style="text-align: center;">and it draws you off.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">In loving the spiritual</div><div style="text-align: center;">you cannot despise the earthly.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">The purpose of the journey</div><div style="text-align: center;">is compassion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">When you have come past </div><div style="text-align: center;">the pairs of opposites</div><div style="text-align: center;">you have reached compassion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">The goal </div><div style="text-align: center;">is to bring the jewel back to the world</div><div style="text-align: center;">to join the two things together. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">🌟 </div><br><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org<br>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>