<html><div style='background-color:'><P>We can each recognize the oneness in each of us, as we are one in spirit and and one human family. I choose to hold to our common spirrt, and also can perceive acts and perceptions as rooted in fear and survival. I can find a way to offer support in word, action, and intention to others to their discovery of ways of peace and love, and be among all who work to create a world of peace and justice.</P>
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<P> I can also seek to be compassionate for those living in the space of <STRONG><EM>Mitote</EM></STRONG>. Don Miguel Ruiz writes of this state in is book `The Four Agreements, a Toltec Wisdom Book`:</P>
<P> [Your whole mind is a fog which the Toltecs called a <EM><STRONG>mitote</STRONG></EM> (pronounced MIH-TOE-TAY). Your mind is a dream where a thousand people talk at the same time, and nobody understands each other. This is the condition of the hum an mind--a big <EM><STRONG>mitote</STRONG> , </EM>and with that bi mitote you cannot see what you really are. In India they call the <STRONG><EM>mitote maya</EM>,</STRONG> which means illusion. It is the personality`s notion of `I am`. Everything you believe about yourself and the world, all the concepts and programming you have in your mind, are all the <EM><STRONG>mitote</STRONG></EM>. We cannot see who we truly are; we cannot see that we are not free.]<BR></P>
<P> I have seen and experienced as a psychotherapist and coach, ways a person creates a personality borne from trauma, loss, fear, a family full of chaos, unpredictability, and authoritarian threats, up to and including abuse and neglect. Roots of mitote I learned are in a life as early as 8 weeks of fetal life. I am also glad to say I was privileged to be an assistant to a person attaining transformation and quantum leaps as far as to realize their magnificence. I witnessed people attaining a new found sense of freedom from early inner subconscious implicit and explicit beliefs, carried within, allowing a profound joy of a kind often accompanied by heart-felt tears as part of a connection with all of life.</P>
<P> So if I see someone in a personal `<EM>mitote</EM>`expressing fears and hatreds, unkindness, coldness, and unforgiving of self or others, it often evokes a deep sadness in me. I can see beyond their `<EM>mitote</EM>` into a human-connection, one we are all a part of, in a giant universal tapestry. And each of us has some `mitote`, active or tamed, and that way of being can be transformed into a discernment of our common roots, serving to fuel acts of kindness and love, as any `good Samaritan`does naturally. </P>
<P>I send you my blessings and good wishes.</P>
<P>Joseph Kaye<BR><BR><BR></P>
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From: <I>"Paul Myers" <PaulandCarole@msn.com></I><BR>To: <I>"discuss" <discuss@paa-tx.org></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [PAA-Discuss] the pro-peace, anti-war dilemma</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:31:43 -0500</I><BR><BR>
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<DIV>Hello Randy,</DIV>
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<DIV>I think I agree with you s<FONT face="Arial, Geneva, Sans-serif">aid </FONT>about earning respect; I should have made myself clearer. I had the same concern when I first heard that term. I guess I have been around those peace loving people too long.</DIV>
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<DIV>What I mean by honor, in this case, and what I am giving away so easily is acceptance and respect in the sense that we are all human and in some way connected. It is related to the respect for life, not the position taken or the behavior of the person that is at issue in this context.</DIV>
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<DIV>The oneness that I speak of is meant in the same way as expressed in the quote below by Dennis Kucinich during his acceptance speech for the Gandhi award some years ago.</DIV>
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<DIV>It does not mean agreement or that I even like the person I am referring to, though I might. </DIV>
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<DIV>It is also acceptance and respect for a human life in the same way that you might like someone to listen to what you have to say, and to understand what you trying to express.</DIV>
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<DIV>Where spiritually some might look for non-attachment, I look to end the separation and to truly be one with everything in my heart as well as in my mind.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Hope that helps,</DIV>
<DIV>Paul</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2>Kucinich quote: “we’re interconnected, we're interdependent. What affects me affects you. It goes beyond the I-thou of Martin Buber and goes to the connectivity of "we are all one" that informed Gandhi's essential philosophy. Because when you wage war under those circumstances, it is not an act merely of homicide—it is an act of suicide. Because we're attacking ourselves. Because our brothers and sisters in Iraq</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT size=2> are receiving the bombs…………..But there is a power greater than all of those weapons and it’s the power of love through which the human heart expresses itself”.</FONT><SPAN><FONT size=2> </FONT> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>"Honor" has no meaning when you give it away so easily.<BR>Like respect, it should be reserved for those who have earned it.<BR><BR>Of course, my only spiritual quest is for non-attachment; so I really don't care who you honor.<BR><BR>Randy<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>--- Paul Myers <<A title=mailto:PaulandCarole@msn.com href="mailto:PaulandCarole@msn.com">PaulandCarole@msn.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> This would include a strategy on how to express the positions of MFSO in such a way as honor the<BR>> position of those that consider anti-war stuff unpatriotic. <BR><BR>"Taken For A Ride" available for viewing by any Houston group concerned with public transit, peak oil, corporate lobby groups.<BR><A title=http://www.newday.com/films/Taken_for_a_Ride.html
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