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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Such excellent guidance and reminders. Beautiful and strong. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks, Marc!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress-bounces@lists.mcn.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 1, 2025 10:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Yasskin Marc <yasskin@mindspring.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Thespiritexpress] Messages ~<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>🌟</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>you will fall into this hole.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>then you will walk through the portal.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>The two go hand in hand.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Don't feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Being sad or angry doesn't help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>You have the right to be strong and positive. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>And there's no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>It's a resistance strategy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>This is all you can do now:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Serenity in the storm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> Keep calm, pray everyday<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Make a habit of meeting the sacred everyday.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>🌟</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>