Harrision- Once again I sit here rereading your thoughts and as always whispering "thank you"!
You are my Spirit; I am your Voice! elwin --- Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > At the risk of confounding confusion, I find it most useful to eliminate the notions of past, present and future, and concentrate on Now. I don't think this is quite as hard as it sounds, indeed for me it becomes a blinding flash of the obvious. We all know that the past is "over" and the future "hasn't happened yet" -- so like it or not -- all we have is Now (the present). Then the question is -- How big is your Now? Is it big enough to include everything that we used to call "past" and "future," or is it just a tiny speck of a moment into which we frantically try a push everything we want to accomplish???? And if the latter, then we have the added agony about a past that is no longer available (memories) or deep anxiety about a future that always just ahead of us (dreams). When I get it "right" my memories are always with me -- they just get richer and deeper. And my dreams are not some inaccessible impossibility, but a very present work in progress. Sometimes, of course, I lose it, space closes and I am left with a frigid (or hot) moment so small I can barely turn around, and my fear becomes almost unbearable. At such a time, I find several deep breaths not only useful, but essential. My space opens, my now expands -- and life becomes possible, even if the details remain the same. Sounds pretty exotic and esoteric -- but I think such an expanded Now is precisely the experience of Open Space. And to the extent that millions of folks around the world have been there, it can't be all that strange. > Harrison > > > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Drive > Potomac, MD 20854 USA > phone 301-365-2093 > 207-763-3261 (Summer) > Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com > Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org > Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm > > [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected] > Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected], > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
