<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Yes, so true. Thank you Marc. <div><br></div><div>When I was in New York, about three months after 9/11, I began to experience a total panic attack. I was crawling underneath my skin, unable to be in my body. That morning, in my meditation, I had been visited by a fireman who had died while he was trying to save people. I began to feel all 3000 souls who had died in buildings and the grief was paralyzing. </div><div><br></div><div>I called a friend who guided me to find a quiet place, surround myself in Lavender healing light. </div><div><br></div><div>As I did this a voice began to speak and an hoop appeared in the room. The voice said:</div><div><br></div><div>"there is war and destruction and grief and tragedy happening all over the world. And if I am fortunate enough to not have been in that burning building, to not have a gun pointed at me, to not be getting bombed at, it was my job to help maintain that sacred hoop. </div><div><br></div><div>Do not postpone your happiness, and be grateful for the life and good fortune you have."</div><div><br></div><div>This message from White Eagle resonates so deeply with me. It also affirms the guidance I was given in a very difficult time.</div><div><br></div><div>I am grateful for you all and for all the wisdom that you share here in community.</div><div><br></div><div>With love,</div><div>Lavender</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 1, 2025, at 10:09 PM, Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation:</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">🌟</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">you will fall into this hole.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">then you will walk through the portal.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">The two go hand in hand.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Don't feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Being sad or angry doesn't help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">You have the right to be strong and positive. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">And there's no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world).</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">It's a resistance strategy.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">This is all you can do now:</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Serenity in the storm</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> Keep calm, pray everyday</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Make a habit of meeting the sacred everyday.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">🌟</div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>