Peggy, you speak the words of my heart - the One Heart that holds us all - in union.
Blessings, Toni ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy Holman" <pe...@opencirclecompany.com> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: A Practice of Peace (Tova Averbuch) > 5. ??? Here's where we are now. We don't know what it is yet. > > Is the fifth a both/and? Accept all our differences AND accept that we are > all one? > > > On Monday evening, I spent about 3 hours with Michael Herman on his way from > Chicago to Fairbanks, Alask via Seattle. I hadn't read anything from the > list for days and wasn't aware of this conversation. Michael and I talked > about how striking it was that the core message from every spiritual > tradition that we knew of contained this seed of many and one. He told me > that I was clearly in the list's conversation without actually being there! > > Here's one example of what I mean. The Sh'ma is perhaps the most essential > prayer of Judaism. (I know there are a number of you who know more alot > about this subject than I, so please chime in!) As said today, it > translates to "Hear O Israel, the lord our god the lord is one." About a > year ago I met a Sufi master and a Druid. Independently, each one told me > that the rough translation for yod-hay-vov-hay (the unspoken word for god) > is "oh, above, below." The Sufi went on to say that the word adonai had > been substituted for yod-hay-vov-hay in the Sh'ma. This would mean that the > prayer would actually translated to something like: > > "Hear O Israel, oh, above-below is god, above-below is one." > > I think of it as diverse unity. And it is us. > > Peggy > > > > > > * > > > ========================================================== > > > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > > > ------------------------------ > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > > > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > > > Visit: > > > > > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html