Thanks, Harrison. Just to the point and in the right time, as usual.
And thanks, Suzanne, for your - also so well crafted - message. It is marvelous
to read messages from you. One can feel that they came from the heart.
Regards to all from sunny Lisbon
Artur
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From: Suzanne Daigle <[email protected]>
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <[email protected]>
Cc: Suzanne Daigle <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [OSList] Reflections and an Invitation
Dear Harrison,
You got us at "hello" a long time ago. We are on that journey already. Your
renewed invitation so beautifully crafted, which I accept as I know others will
and have, soothe and re-inspire to a deeper journey and a deeper sense of
awareness. You have captured, with brilliance and utter simplicity, the
recurring pattern of the Revolutionary Euphoria followed by the Asymmetric
Blues. How ironic that even though it was staring me in the face, I never quite
saw it in the simplicity with which you have just described it.
I feel a deep sense of peace inside of me, realizing in a breakthrough moment
what life could be like if we simply let ourselves live fully in the euphoria
of the moment without holding back, being ever so present, and if we stopped
worrying about controlling or preventing the asymmetric blues knowing they are
part of the normal course of life.
We would experience greater joy and pain would be seen as something that will
pass. And I imagine all of us being so very surprised with the sustainable
outcomes that emerge.
On the one hand, because we fear the blues, we hold back on the euphoria and
then later, when the blues come, we convince ourselves that the euphoria was
just an illusion or a rare moment in time. Each experience in the present
moment suffers. I realize this surfer has lots has a lot to learn when it comes
to wave riding.
So in the euphoria of this breakthrough moment, imagining being totally soaked
riding the waves of Hurricane Irene, I holler out real loud: YAHOO and THANK
YOU Harrison!
Who else is up for the ride? I'm in! And I don't need a life jacket anymore!
Suzanne
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
While waiting for Irene – she has now come and largely gone – but the waiting
went on for a week or so. And in that time I started to write a note to myself.
That note took on a life of its own and led me to some places I have been
pondering, but never quite reached. I shared it with a few friends and they
seemed to enjoy. So I make bold to offer it to you my friends on OSLIST. I
guess that is appropriate, for the note has a lot to do with Open Space, our
collective learning, and where we might go from here. Actually it is an
invitation… and if curious go to:
>
>http://openspaceworld.com/August%20Morning.pdf
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Harrison
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