Comments - The Philosophy of Community - iPeace.us2024-03-28T22:59:10Zhttps://ipeace.us/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2217368%3ABlogPost%3A898998&xn_auth=noJust re-read your writing and…tag:ipeace.us,2009-01-10:2217368:Comment:9475182009-01-10T08:18:05.992ZStephaniehttps://ipeace.us/profile/StephanieSeymourinItaly
Just re-read your writing and find it so valuable. Maybe it should be on the first page and stay there a long time.I think it's great.<br />
Steph
Just re-read your writing and find it so valuable. Maybe it should be on the first page and stay there a long time.I think it's great.<br />
Steph Well, like the old hippies sa…tag:ipeace.us,2009-01-06:2217368:Comment:9117322009-01-06T22:21:50.219ZBruce Schumanhttps://ipeace.us/profile/BruceSchuman
Well, like the old hippies say -- a good planet is hard to find. Let's fix this one :):):)
Well, like the old hippies say -- a good planet is hard to find. Let's fix this one :):):) Good morning from Santa Barba…tag:ipeace.us,2009-01-06:2217368:Comment:9056762009-01-06T15:14:10.473ZBruce Schumanhttps://ipeace.us/profile/BruceSchuman
Good morning from Santa Barbara. Thanks for these comments. Sabine -- it is always such a pleasure to see and feel your responses....<br />
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This little statement on community -- is actually something I wrote back in the 1990's -- and has been sitting on our "United Communities of Spirit" project for years -- http://origin.org/ucs/philcom.cfm<br />
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Many of these ideas I was taught or learned from some teacher or guru. I didn't invent all of this -- I learned it, from many sources. But I remember way back…
Good morning from Santa Barbara. Thanks for these comments. Sabine -- it is always such a pleasure to see and feel your responses....<br />
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This little statement on community -- is actually something I wrote back in the 1990's -- and has been sitting on our "United Communities of Spirit" project for years -- http://origin.org/ucs/philcom.cfm<br />
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Many of these ideas I was taught or learned from some teacher or guru. I didn't invent all of this -- I learned it, from many sources. But I remember way back -- about 1986 -- I just became "possessed" by an idea I called "Vision of the Network". That idea -- was that individual human beings -- always see the world through a "point of view" -- a perspective -- that is always "local", always partial, always somewhat "biased" by the immediate situation. But -- the "vision of the network" -- is the vision of 10,000 eyes -- seeing the world and everything from every point of view at the same time. Maybe this is just a dream, or a fuzzy metaphysical abstraction -- but I can feel it -- and maybe our electronic connections are slowly bringing people into resonance, in ways that could give us this kind of integrity-of-vision...<br />
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So, all of this is not new -- but today, it feels as true as ever, and maybe more important than ever. Of course, anyone is free to copy or print this statement -- I would love to see it be helpful somewhere. Ohhhh, Bruce! You are a great…tag:ipeace.us,2009-01-06:2217368:Comment:9016422009-01-06T05:52:19.380ZSabine Theresiahttps://ipeace.us/profile/SabineTheresia
Ohhhh, Bruce! You are a great think tank for our community HERE! During the last days, it really seemed as if you were brooding on something, and when I came here at 5.00 a.m. a new strong and beautiful chick had slipped out.<br />
Your inputs here are so valuable, they are very clear, coming deeply out of the setting HERE and NOW and show your great ability to feel what is the matter and what can bring us closer to what we want to live here.<br />
This is what touched me most:<br />
* "Everyone is a student as…
Ohhhh, Bruce! You are a great think tank for our community HERE! During the last days, it really seemed as if you were brooding on something, and when I came here at 5.00 a.m. a new strong and beautiful chick had slipped out.<br />
Your inputs here are so valuable, they are very clear, coming deeply out of the setting HERE and NOW and show your great ability to feel what is the matter and what can bring us closer to what we want to live here.<br />
This is what touched me most:<br />
* "Everyone is a student as well as a teacher." During the last days, I realized, that I learn a lot by watching what is going on in this big 'street café' with all of us meeting, sharing, reacting ... but more than that by watching what is going on within me, for example, when something does not happen as I expected it to do or as I would have liked to. The strongest feelings within us, especially those ones of disappointment or strong inner demarkation from anything / anyone here give us the chance to watch and understand our inner absence of peace. And that can give us valuable insights into the way life is happening and developing itself.<br />
* I' ve never heard the sentence "Let the past be prologue". I hope that I never will forget it and integrate it into my BEING and ACTING.<br />
* The wisdom "Give me the strength, to change what I can..." is one of those few wise sentences, I met early in my life (maybe 25 years ago). But whenever I heard / saw it again, I thought: "Yes, that's still something I want to educate my mind with much more." And I think, especially this one is so important for all of us having the deep and strong longing for PEACE in the whole world. It goes together with<br />
* "Know that we do not know", that is most important for us by watching the conflicts or even wars of others from the outside. How can we come and say: "You must do this, you must do that!" ???<br />
* Being good "connects the individual human being to the core power of the universe." This is not moral, that's pure wisdom. I think we all got more or less sick by all those moralistic rules given by our parents, teachers, educators, official institutions, religious institutions and communities ... But if we get aware of this deep truth, it immediately influences our inner and outer BEING and ACTING. Then, automatically, we reconnect ourselves to the deepest source of everything and everybody. And we also can give those a chance, that up to now didn't have so many chances, to see the light and feel the warmth on the other side of an endless seeming shadow.<br />
Thank you again, Bruce for your amazing BEING and WRITING here. I agree! It is usefull for li…tag:ipeace.us,2009-01-06:2217368:Comment:9003512009-01-06T02:08:24.092ZCida Medeiroshttps://ipeace.us/profile/CidaMedeiros
I agree! It is usefull for life! Thanks!
I agree! It is usefull for life! Thanks! This really sums things up! H…tag:ipeace.us,2009-01-05:2217368:Comment:8990822009-01-05T23:28:32.000ZStephaniehttps://ipeace.us/profile/StephanieSeymourinItaly
This really sums things up! Have you read this, used it before? It certainly looks very very professional.<br />
Want to print it out even for the family...it can be used at home right?
This really sums things up! Have you read this, used it before? It certainly looks very very professional.<br />
Want to print it out even for the family...it can be used at home right?