<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Thanks for sharing this meaningful passage, Joyce. I did some research and the quote is attributed to <span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Shane Claiborne, </span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Free all the prisoners! as I've heard Ron say before.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Greetings and unified love to all from Montana!</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">~ Ed</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:14px;color:#909090" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Joyce Pfaffle via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 9/16/25 2:50 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org </div><div>Cc: Joyce Pfaffle <luckyjoysee@gmail.com> </div><div>Subject: [Thespiritexpress] Paradox and Evolution </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">At our Tuesday meeting on The Kybalion, I was asked to submit toi Spirit Express what I had quoted as we were talking about relative reality and living in it while also living with the inspiration of absolute reality. This short (anonymous--since I didn't get the source when I copied it years ago) piece helps me thru difficult paradoxical situations where it is tempting to expel someone for difficult behavior rather than finding ways to reconcile and include. Here is the quote:</div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity.<br>It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice;</div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer;</div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight. </div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">[It is] but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice.</div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.</div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">~Author Unknown~</div><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="1">JOYCE (JOYSEE) PFAFFLE</font></b><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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