Loss as a motivator for peace!!

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Comment by Joe Michael Solomon on August 10, 2009 at 8:18am

Dear Devi:

Your losses are great like mine! I hope you can contribute towards others in spirit and in kind and that helps you in kind!

Comment by Joe Michael Solomon on August 10, 2009 at 8:15am

Dear Miki:
As a person who lost most of his immediate family very young and felt like death when I lost my first wife!! Lost all 3 best frinds before I was 40. I know loss!! I know that it has motivated me in the end. I had to get over the anger I had and the feeling sorry for myself. It took a long time. I turned my attention and creativity towrds others and it has worked for me, worked for them and contributed towardsn peace.

Comment by Miki Iliescu on August 9, 2009 at 1:28am

I have had a lot of loss in my life....I've seen a lot of friends/family died . I've lost my parents , some friends , including one earlier this year. I've also lost now, two very close family members to me.
It was a tough time, but in the end, everytime you learn that the best thing you can do is just remember all the good times you had with they. I know nothing's going to bring them back except for the memories...

Comment by Joe Michael Solomon on August 8, 2009 at 4:38am

Dear Allice:

There are so many types of loss.. Our mothers just being one of them. you meight open up the discussion here about Personal Price for Peace, if you haven't already. Death a great loss effects in many ways. i was an angry teenager when my father dioed and fely abandoned. It was only later that I was able to replace that anger iwth the Memory of the man and he did help shape me.

Thanks for your response
Joe Michael

Comment by Miki Iliescu on August 7, 2009 at 8:42am

Okay, roger that :) is a point of vue...
All the best !

Comment by Joe Michael Solomon on August 7, 2009 at 3:12am

Any catastrophic life experience even loss through Death... Can and will toll tremendous change in once conciousness, or the lack of it. I remmeber my mother finally dieing and not being able to cry! On the aniverary of her death I awoke out of sleep dreamimg of my sweet mother and in tears! That was when I could handle the grief. I use that as an example because from that day on over the next decades I allowed myself to becaome more and more like my mother. She graduated Law School in 1939 and worked as a social worker in the City of New York becaue she wanted to help children and the aged. Before she died she opened 9 day centers in Broklyn and Queens NYC, two of which were named after her. She definately is one of my hero's. her death changed my life as much or more then just having her ever could have! Slowly and inexorably I became her!

Miki :: I can't resist on your comment about sexual intercourse being differant and not spiritual!! There are those spiritual physical magical monents... I'm sorry!! lol

Joe Michael

Comment by gunilla caisson on August 6, 2009 at 8:54pm

I think its hard to accept a loss of a dear one. I know intellectually that death is a natural part of life, but my heart refuse to think it just feel, and therefore will never accept...

Comment by Miki Iliescu on August 6, 2009 at 8:48pm

To suggest that the death of a loved one and change have anything in common seems surprising, and perhaps even outrageous. We dread the one, and at least sometimes want the other, so they must be opposite. And yet they are one-and-the-same thing, part-and parcel as all emotional opposites are such as love and hate.
Yet to avoid our fear of it, we've always tried to do change in one grand step, so we can avoid the sometimes-terrible growing pains of it actually, and knowingly happen.
Most of us still leave emotional experience to family, and spiritual experience to God-which means we believe we can't handle either for ourselves. There are a few of us who try, and many more of us who experiment in this most unexplored realm of who we are-the emotive, spiritual realm of human nature. That kind of deep structural change happens rarely.
Our first step will be to accept loss as a normal part of life. Being alive is about more than sexual intercourse, showing off, pampering buying sprees or vacations. It's about reaching for the stars in a spiritual/emotional way. We all crave an assignment of that kind to give our life purpose, but at the same time despair at finding such opportunity anywhere. When it's right there every day of our life waiting to be addressed, inside of each one of us..

Comment by Joe Michael Solomon on August 6, 2009 at 7:33am

The loss of My Father at 10 and my mother to cnacer 12 although she stuggled to survive for years she was lost to me. Having to support my Brother and i from 13.
The army and the companyE ( see below I lost) The cjhhild i tried to help in vietnam who died of complications. Witnessing over 100 murders of innocents in the name of war. All could have destroyed me! I'm lucky in that my journey produced hope and motivated me! How has your journey effected you?

Comment by Joe Michael Solomon on August 6, 2009 at 7:23am

Sorry GC : Loss as in losing a loved one or many. Maybe to death naturally or in other circumstances

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