<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">This is a great share and a wonderful reminder 🙏🏽 <div>Thank you for passing it along definitely in resonance 🫶🏽 </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:-apple-system-body">✨Paloma </span><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Love long and prosper </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 25, 2026, at 5:39 PM, Susan McNeil 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">Beautiful✨✨Thank you, Toni.<div>Susan<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 25, 2026, at 5:23 PM, Cornelia Gerken via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thank you for sharing this precious Jack Korfield quote.<div>Love</div><div>Cornelia</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 1:37 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">When I lived in Woodacre I attended Spirit Rock meditation center frequently to meditate and listen to Jack share his amazing stories, guidance and beautiful wisdom.</span><br><div><div>On occasion, I would run into him at the post office, and he would greet me like a friend…….such a blessing…….</div><div><br></div><div>I thought this was particularly synchronistic, arriving in my in-box today since our discussion at “Sutras” on Tuesday included an unpacking of what is pain? What is growth?</div><div>Does the caterpillar suffer in its process to became a butterfly? And how do we hold the “suffering” together as we grow and transform?</div><div><br></div><div>With love and gratitude for our sweet community, </div><div>T</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear friends, </span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div>
<br>A teacher once said, “If you think you can wake up without breaking open, you’re mistaken.”
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Growth is not polite.
<br>Truth is not always gentle.
<br>And transformation often hurts.
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But it hurts like birth hurts.
<br>Like muscles growing hurt.
<br>Like a heart opening wider than it ever has before.
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We don’t heal alone.
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Even when we think we must.
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Almost every great turning in your life involved another human being—someone who listened, someone who stayed, someone who did not turn away when you were afraid.
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We are not meant to carry everything by ourselves.
<br>We are meant to <em>carry one another</em>.
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It doesn’t mean we fix each other.
<br>It means we refuse to abandon one another.
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When you walk through grief and someone sits beside you, you are changed.
<br>When you face uncertainty and someone lights a candle, you are changed.
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This is what community means:
<br>Not agreement.
<br>Not sameness.
<br>But shared courage.
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We are not as strong alone as we are together.
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That is not sentimental.
<br>That is survival.
<br>That is love.
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<br>With metta,
<br>Jack
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