Therese and Sue, I guess for me, relationship among humans is a "sacred" thing by itself. Of course we enter into relationship with all our identity traits (religion, sex, profession, nationality,culture so on)
I have nothing against identity....how i can have? we all have some... But what i don't like is to see that these identity traits impede or modify a "direct and natural" relationship (conversation, dialogue, help etc.).......forget that they even create hostility in some (many) cases. Funda ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Scott" <mssco...@mindspring.com> > To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 5:25 AM > Subject: Re: Opening a Space for Peace in Burundi & Central Africa > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > About religion and compassion, I can only speak for myself : I am one > whole > > person and my motivations are complicated and hard to know, such as, do I > > help someone because I love them *or* because I love God? It is not > > either/or methinks. These cannot be separated in me personally. I seek to > be > > compassionate in the way that is best for the person I help. I hope I do > it > > because I feel their suffering and want to alleviate it. If God also tells > > me to do that, then that is only further confirmation of how I should act. > > > > Open space: the space to be me in my complexities/culture/religion/filters > > and the space to be you in your complexities/culture/religion/filters > *and* > > the wonderful opportunity to learn from each other. > > > > > > Sue > > > > * > > * > > ========================================================== > > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > > ------------------------------ > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
