Morning Meeting Notes – March 1, 2008

It’s time for us to settle ourselves down and get comfortable with just “Being” with each other.   The truth is, we’re the same person.   So we have every right to be comfortable with each other.   To reach that comfort we each have to get comfortable in ourselves.   That place of comfort in each one of us   is the place where I am--where I just am.  
That’s the safe place where we can always meet.  That’s the pinnacle peak of the present moment.   From here we can create a new world.   Be still and know that I AM . Be still and know that I am us . Be still and know that I am God

The song that inserted itself into our meditation this morning comes from Taj Mahal:

Though you played at love and lost, And sorrow has turned your heart to frost,    I   will mend your heart again. Remember the feeling as a child,  when you woke up and morning smiled,     It’s time, it’s time you felt like that again. There is just no percentage in remembering the past.   It’s time you learned to live again and love and laugh. Come and leave your yesterdays behind, And take a giant step outside your mind.

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Morning meeting notes-- leap day, 2008

We want to give our children and grandchildren a solid body of real knowledge.   We want to tell them those things   that we can all agree are true and real.    We want to arm them with information and beliefs that are so well grounded in reality   that when they finally have their own enlightening revelations they will be able to say, “Wow, my parents really did know what they were talking about!”

We will be working on compiling that body of knowledge in a way that can be told to them--starting at a very young age.

Feb 26

As our relationships mature, and as we gain confidence in each other’s love, we become more capable of giving and receiving reflections from one another about our personalities and mannerisms.   When your goal is to bring out the best in the other person, then you want to be able to give them reflections on those unattractive aspects of their personality that they seem to be blind to.   We   all have them;   and we need each other’s help to see them and change them.  

But if we haven’t built the love, or if we aren’t leading with our love, then our reflections just sound like judgments, and the other person’s defense mechanisms kick in.  

On the receiving end of things, it would help immensely if we all gave up the right to be offended. Taking offense at some reflection that a friend is giving you accounts for most of the breakdowns in our communications.   And take a look at what that implies.   It’s like saying , “You’re saying that to hurt me.” When the truth is, you’re saying it because you’re trying to help me improve something about my character,   my attitude or my thought process.

Living communally as many of us have, we have found that this is a thresh-hold issue.   People who can’t receive   reflections from one another without getting offended, can’t successfully live together.

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Leading from the Heart     Feb 25

 This morning we spoke of the importance of leading with the heart rather than the mind. The heart is the focus of love, caring and nurturing and forms the basis of an enduring relationship. The mind is more the focus of intellect, reasoning and logic and must work in harmony with the heart for a healthy balance in character and personality. In our 40 years of living together, this truth is at the core of our success.

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Creating a Useful Wall    --   February 2008:

We have been given the opportunity to create a new culture between us.   But it requires that each one of us takes full responsibility for managing his own thoughts.   In a sense, we have to build a wall right behind us that keeps out all negative thoughts about the past and allows us to experience the fresh reality of the present without interference from past negativity.

Forgiveness is essential.   It is a requirements   for claiming   citizenship in   this new culture.   Now that we know that we are all really the same person, we have to allow each other and ourselves to be free of any judgments from the past that try to cling to us and tarnish how we see each other in the present.   That is a powerful benefit that we can bestow on each other. By doing it collectively,   we create an atmosphere that gives us the greatest opportunity to be our most Godly selves with one another.  

We have the same obligation to reject all worrisome thoughts about the future—to not allow them to disturb the peace of the present.   When the situation is ripe, solutions appear.   The most enlightened solutions   will emerge from the clearest mind.

Between us, we have the capacity to create a city of real love, where each of us is a guardian of that city, protecting it’s peace from   within our own minds.   

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