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Living love's depth through you.....

aschleigh — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:13:35 GMT

I was journaling the other day and what I really want is to feel the depth of love, the depth of love( spirit) as experienced, lived through me. I can feel that on my own daily , these days. But I also want to feel it expressed through a relationship and they are also feeling the depth of their love through us.

What do you think about that? How do you feel about living love's depth through you? WHat do you think that looks like, entails, requires of you? If that something you want to experience?

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Heartbreak

Booster — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:22:33 GMT

We should never fear heartbreak, and after so many breaks we can but hope that our hearts appear less like wrecked scrap and more like stained glass windows. Only the light that compassion brings is capable of making such dark scars transparent and beautiful.

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Can I get some LOVE...

Lexafina™ — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:43:18 GMT

I came across this tribe -=<{(( love ))}>=- and this is an emotion I most def need right now.
Can anyone share?

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The "one"

natashalivesly — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:47:29 GMT

Do you believe in the "one" or the "ones?" What is your honest opinion, instinct, gut etc?

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advice or maybe just a hidden place to vent....

iamk8 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:10:30 GMT

a few years back, a relationship that i thought was The One (you know, that one where you have all the good things of every relationship you've ever been in but x10 and plus some other stuff that you didn't even know was possible) ended in anger hurt and distrust. and so it was over. taught me that you never really stop loving someone - you just bottle it up and put it on a back shelf to take out and examine from time to time, maybe pulling out the stopper to allow yourself a whiff of what was.

we probably unwisely tried to decant that bottle a bit at burning man this year. but he remains convinced that it wouldn't work, so therefore it
won't. he doesn't believe i'm worth trusting or that i've changed. and maybe he's right. and i've heard all the stuff about how if he's not making me feel good about myself then i need to cut him out of my mind if not out of my life. but what i wonder is now that i'm stuck with a bottle that won't close back up, a basket of newly minted memories and realizations about how futile it has been in the intervening years to try to settle into relationships that only have a few of those good things and some freshly opened scar tissue....well, now what do i do with all of that?

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What's the price of love???

~Alura~ — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 06:13:38 GMT

What is the price of love???

responsiblity, accountablilty, sacrafice??
need, expectation, demand?

What would you give up to love and be loved unconditionally?

How does one love once hurt has set in? Can we ever trust again??

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Don't Miss The Curious Savage, a warm comedy with a barrel full of laughs

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:45:27 GMT

NOTE: Lots of Tribe people and Burner People will be attending on Saturday, March 24 and Friday, March 30.

Sandy Actors Theater proudly presents The Curious Savage, a warm comedy for all ages
8 to 80.

The play takes place in a mental institution with some zany characters that create a barrel of laughs. It also is a very warm play that shows how love conquers greed. it also shows
how wounded souls can heal through the power of love.

This play is among the top ten plays in the U.S. performed by colleges, high schools and community theaters.

March 23 through April 21, five weeks. Friday and Saturday evenings 8:00PM and Sundays at 6:00PM. Free Champagne Reception on stage after the performance.

Sandy is 8 miles east of Gresham on Hwy. 26. A lovely theater that seets 95.
Watch on your left for Ace Hardware about 4/5 of the way through town on your left.
We are directly behind Ace Hardware.

For reservations and information call 503- 668-6834
For theater party information, groups of ten or more, call 503-253-7501
SEE YOU THERE!
Jim Wilhite
Director, The Curious Savage

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Please send a little love.

Sprout — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:51:13 GMT

There is going to be a neo-nazi march in my town on Saturday. I am thinking of going to a gathering that day near the route to project peace and love. We need all the love vibes we can get to counter-act the hate being represented here. Please help!!!

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Received in mail...

dragolar — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:30:25 GMT

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?" The
answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined:

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." ~Rebecca, age 8
_____

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." ~Billy, age 4
_____

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." ~Karl, age 5
_____

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." ~Chrissy, age 6
_____

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." ~Terri, age 4
_____

"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." ~ Danny, age 7
_____

"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss" ~Emily, age 8
_____

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." ~Bobby, age 7
_____

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate," ~Nikka, age 6
_____

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday." ~Noelle, age 7
_____

"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." ~Tommy, age 6
_____

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." ~Elaine, age 5
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"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford." ~Chris, age 7
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"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." ~Mary Ann, age 4
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"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." ~Lauren, age 4
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"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." ~Karen, age 7
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"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross." ~Mark, age 6
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"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." ~Jessica, age 8
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And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry"

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The Secret

karakay — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:52:21 GMT

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8958231188734018006&q=secret

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owed to love

freewil4u — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:45:47 GMT

Bridge of Love

forgetting alone flocking in flight,

choosing growth sharing insight,

empowering love shining bright,

joined hearts reflecting delight...

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this american life, valentine's 98

QueSarahSarah — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:48:39 GMT

hello lovely love lovers.

I love this radio program, This American Life from Chicago Public Radio, and I as I made dinner I listened to this episode about both the strength and fragility of long-term love. The first was sad, the second was sweet, and the third positively heartbreaking and also stunningly beautiful. Be careful, especially with the third if you are tender with loss - it's a poet's account of losing his wife to leukemia. This story salted my dinner with tears.

http://www.thislife.org/
click on '98 and scroll down to to "Valentine's Day 98"

don't let the tears scare you off. it's worth it.
~Sarah

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My Love for You is Free

Jim — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:17:52 GMT

Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Anonymous

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~Sweet Serenity~

Joshua~* — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:15:37 GMT

~As lovers touch the night falls again
leaving only dreams to remember
A Fairytale unwritten, yet imagined
Between two destined strangers
who know one another from somewhere
Perhaps a different life or time
Now acquainted again by chance~

~As I close my eyes I see her now
so pure & innocent, truth would be jealous
with green eyes that steal my soul
I ache to touch her sweet, soft skin again
Addicted to her deadly kiss
That has captured me leaving me helpless~

~As I blissfully dream, I hear her voice
whispering my name in her sleep
As if calling out from the heavans above
Like an Angel sent here for me to keep
So comfortable, I forget my worries
& lose myself in her trance~

~As the light shines in like fingers, I awake again
Yet today, full of passion & romance
Just a pawn in Destiny's game of chess
Parralized between dream state & reality
I look to see if the haze will clear
Into a new found world painted with laughter~

~J.~

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~My experience with a soul mate~

Joshua~* — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:36:15 GMT

~Eternal Light & Exchanging Energies Union~
~OR~
~Soul Mates~

~It all began with the Eagle’s mask
my being transient unto a new time… the unknown knowingly
between reality & dream state~

~As if for a moment I were the words of a story &
the absolute was revealed to me by my creator~

…And then She came…

~Gently fluttering with such a presence my soul leaped out of my being
The Embrace was such that the most intense hug my life form has EVER felt was jealous of the magnitude~

~Words held no significance here… only quick moments captured & pieced together as a photographer tells his story~

~Truths so deep the psyche’s spirit is revealed & sparked to life with love’s unfathomable presence~

~Lifetimes of thoughts colliding onto each other for this perfect union… So intense
… It has to be a dream…~

~As we connect deeper & deeper the material disappears…
Orgasms of pleasure ripple through my mind, body & soul touching me in places I will treasure for eternity~

~Energy grips & swirls tighter and tighter giving our souls endless blooming passion from the universe’s sweet nectar~

~Communication is effortless, as if our thoughts are one…
Love is redefined over & over… as if each new epiphany constructs the instructions for the next~

~And in creeps attachment… my lover, my enemy
Longing to hold this precious moment for eternity~

~My soul reacts… preparing for battle… leaping back into my material body
Grabbing Desire as my sword & destiny as my shield~

Yet she is no longer there~

~Everything is temporary~
~Everything is perfect~

~Thank you ~ I am perpetually grateful for my experience…

~*J.

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She said...

poweredbyatari — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:50:33 GMT

"I think you want more than I can give and it frightens me."

And the only thing I wanted from her was to see her again.

WTF?

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Love you

Joshua~* — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:04:13 GMT

~I love you~
xoxo

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Relationships Gone Wild

Jim — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:12:19 GMT

It seems so many relationships are falling apart right now. In my counseling business, i am working with seven different couples that are a breath away from saying goodbye to each other.

I also have friends and aquaintances who are in crisis in their relationships. My Astrologer friend claims it is because Mercury is in retrograde. Lots of opinions. For what it is worth, I would like to throw my opinions in the pot for your feedback and thoughts.

1. We seem to be a society of instant gratification. High speed internet, 150 channels immediately available on our remote and microwaves are faster than ever. We want it all NOW. It is hard for us to delay our gratification. We tend to leave five minutes before the miracle. In fact we are a society of leaving....leaving spiritual paths to try a new one, leaving jobs, leaving lovers, leaving families, leaving where we live for what we think will be something better. And after we do our geographical, we find the same problems and challenges follow us.

2. This one just might really stir the pot. In so many cases, the couples I counsel finally after much denial admit that alcohol and drugs are a serious issue in the relationship.

I have numerous phone clients. Recently, a couple I am working with back east both entered an inpatient treatment center. We are not talking about penniless slackers.
He is an attorney and she teaches English in a private high school.

Now, to keep it fair and honest, I am a recovered alcoholic. I will have been clean and sober 33 years this April 30. So I have experienced both sides of the coin. Am I prejudiced against alcohol and drugs? Maybe. But I can tell you this. In 26 years of the work I do, I have yet to see alcohol or drugs add value to a relationship.

We use chemicals to alter our state of consciousness so we don't have to face the reality of the here and now.

3. Most couples in crisis lack a strong spiritual program. I am NOT talking about religion, doctrine or dogma. I am talking about universal spiritual practices such as meditation,
non-sectarian prayer etc. that keep us in contact with Source. Personally, I am very Metaphysical in my spiritual path.

4. Couples in crisis seem to have their PH:D in the other person's behavior and they are at kindergarten level regarding their own behavior.

What I find sad, is the fact many of these relationships can be saved and healed, but people leave and give up way too soon. And then two years later they are back in my office with a new partner dragging the same old problems around in their lives. They re-invent the wheel time and time again.

PLEASE, if you are thinking of leaving, take a 30 day time out. Get some help, get some counseling. Make a list of the values and beauty that brought you together in the first place.
Spend 100% of your time for a week looking at YOUR behavior and zero percent of your time looking at your partners behavior. You may be surp[rised at what you discovered.

If this helps one couple, it has been worth me posting my opinions, be they right or wrong.
Would love to hear your feedback.
Love peace and blessings,
Jim Wilhite

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DO YOU STILL THINK OF YOUR FIRST LOVE?

SweetSensualPrincess — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:24:02 GMT

I still think of my first love often...
I will always love him.
I have compared every relationship Ive been in,
based on my relationship with my first love..
Has anyone else felt this way?

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LOVE THY NEIGHBOR?????

J'DYSATTVA — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:09:49 GMT

WWW.TRADITIONALVALUES.ORG/URBAN

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unrequited or unreciprocated love ....

thebridge — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:24:59 GMT

I have fallen into an old trap again (or said more powerfully, I have chosen to repeat a pattern) in which I fall for someone who is unable or unwilling to be available to or to choose me. I reconnected with a lover and we had such an amazing experience. I wanted to go to the relationship place and he is not in that place for himself. I am not making wrong for expressing his needs and sticking to where he is at, regardless of me entering his life.

How do you deal with that feeling of rejection? I felt like I put my heart out there and then I was given a "no for now (not a definite no)," and I keep dancing between totally shutting myself off and hardening up, to feeling vulnerable and sad. How do you achieve that balance on that slippery slope of mutual relationship?

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~For You~

Joshua~* — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:04:00 GMT

There is nothing in the world that beats the feeling of falling in love and being in love! Many of us fantasize about meeting our perfect match and being swept off our feet, and yet more and more of us think of relationship as a life partnership that gives us sustenance and allows us to share our selves and our love in a deep and soulful way. We long for strong and happy unions and a home life that offers security and is sturdy enough to be the foundation for all we do in the world.

With so many people expressing so much desire for true love, why are so many still searching? Why do many people fear love may never come? The reasons are many and as complex as each individual who desires true love. However, in my 25 years of experience specializing in romantic union, I have come to believe that there are three situations that crop up time and time again to thwart Cupid's coveted arrow from having a satisfying, lasting effect.

1. People tend to think magically about love without doing the practical and emotional work to draw the right relationship to them and to keep it healthy and alive. In fact, true love requires us to make an effort to welcome it, and demands we continue to nurture it.

2. Many people skip important steps to creating the relationship of their dreams by forgetting the cardinal rule of love relationships: in order to experience genuine, mature love with another, we first must love ourselves.

3. Sometimes we say we want love, romance and passion, but we are really not ready. When that is the case, we throw up roadblocks we may not even be aware of.

Your first stop on the road to romance is within you! Looking for love externally and even finding someone who seems to adore you can be a fleeting experience if you do not have a strong foundation of self-esteem, and if you do not continually do things to empower your own sense of self-worth. It is esteem and the honoring of one's self that opens the door for another to give us the same.

Love Begets Love

The Law of Self-Honoring is a spiritual law that guides the world of love relationships.

When an individual does the self-work that allows them to connect with another human being on a deep and soulful level, they begin to come alive with love. Love that begins to stir from within then radiates to the world and magnetically draws in more love. Eventually, it is the pumping up of this love energy (from one's self to the world) that helps lead people to find their mates. You begin to let your light shine, and that light sends a spiritual signal to the heavens, where cosmic matchmakers do their thing to bring you two together when the time is right.

As a wedding officiant, it is an honor to witness this light in couples who step up to the altar on their wedding day. They can truly connect to one another's souls with the deepest kind of love. There is a special sense of communion as they speak their vows to one another. Many brides and grooms exhibit a romantic confidence that is inspiring; they have drawn love in, and love has uplifted them. And there is a special bonus: They have even greater self-esteem because they have been chosen!

This is why people love weddings: the bride and groom seem to embody the personal fulfillment and relationship success that many of us associate with a good romantic life. It is an experience that so many crave. Weddings give us a firsthand glimpse of what is possible.

Do all brides and grooms make it to the home stretch of a lasting lifetime commitment? No. Yet somehow they get to step up to the plate and take a swing, and there is something very special about getting that far in the game, at grabbing that opportunity to build a great life together.

There is no magic pill for finding love and keeping it. It's a combination of taking the steps to change one's self-image and negative beliefs about love and commitment, and the sheer power of Love, which will always work with you when you are working on yourself!

Sometimes, it helps to fake it until you make it. I don't mean that you should be inauthentic, I just mean it can't hurt to "act out" the new way of being you would like to create. This is what kids do when they are trying to learn how to master things in the world; they pretend and play-act. Play-acting self-esteem and love is not a goofy idea, for it can actually be an empowering way to retrain your subconscious mind to agree that, "Yes, I AM worthy of love, happiness and a great relationship with myself as well as others."

A Self-Love Ceremony

There are many steps to the practical and emotional work that any one of us may be called to do in a lifetime. I advocate that you take all the steps you must to make yourself the best you can be, and to prepare for love in a sensible and soulful way.

In addition to the more mundane and sometimes emotionally demanding tasks of getting ready for love, ritual helps to give us a head start on any life project. That's why marriage ceremonies are so important. They create the sacred container for our goals and dreams; they give power to our aspirations for a loving lifetime relationship. They set the stage for how a couple in love will handle the challenges of relationships as they navigate the waters of life together.

If you want to make a powerful statement about your readiness for love, fall in love with yourself first, and ceremoniously commit yourself to yourself. Dedicate yourself to your own self-wedding ceremony. Your willingness to take such a strong stand for love will create miracles in all areas of your life, for a self-marriage ceremony, like any other big ceremony, is an initiation to a new way of being. Perhaps that is when the magic steps in!

Love the One You're With

When I teach relationship readiness seminars, I have people look into a mirror into their own eyes and recite vows to themselves. This is after they have gone through a process of treating themselves like divine beings, and have relaxed into a blissful feeling of self-appreciation. The following is an abbreviated version, designed just to get you started.

Preparation: For this ceremony, you will need ample time alone, something wonderful to wear, candles, flowers, paper or a journal and pen, a mirror, music including a "first dance song," celebratory food and libation (a glass of wine or grape juice is fine), and anything else you would like to include.

Clean your house and make sure things are neat and comfortable beforehand.

Prepare a "reception" comprised of a libation and a favorite meal, or whatever would be pleasing (alcohol not required). You can prepare it prior to the ceremony or plan on celebrating by ordering in. Have everything you need ready and handy, even if it's only a menu to your favorite take-out place. Hopefully it's one that delivers, for I recommend that you stay home and bask in the energy of your experience instead of going out dancing or out to eat.

Shower or bathe and dress up. You can buy yourself something beautiful, new and fitting for the occasion, or just wear something that makes you feel good.

Play music that inspires you and opens your heart as you prepare the wedding altar in your living room or on a small table in your bedroom. Include a candle and flowers on the altar, if possible. Be prepared to write in a journal or on plain paper. Have a full-sized mirror or handheld mirror handy. Make sure you have undisturbed time alone before you begin.

Your Wedding Ceremony For One

1. Light a candle and bring light into the room.

2. Say a brief prayer if it feels comfortable: Divine Spirit of All There Is, please fill this place with your sacred presence. Support me in my efforts to express my love for myself. Help me see my own divinity. Amen.

3. Sit down and meditate on the qualities you desire in a mate. Daydream about your wedding day to come and the vows you would like another to say to you, and those you would like to pledge to another.

4. Write down three (or more) vows that are personally meaningful to you, such as: I will promise to love you through all time. I promise to love myself so that I can more fully receive your love. I am honored to have you in my life. I adore you. I love your strength and wisdom. (Etc.)

5. When you feel ready, look into the mirror and connect with your own eyes and read the vows to yourself. It may be uncomfortable at first, but you can transcend that. Know that your self-love vows will send a powerful message to the universe that you are ready for love!

6. Celebrate your union with yourself with a sip of wine.

7. Play the music of that "first dance," the one you hope to share with your beloved someday.

8. Dance and feel the love!

It is not part of our common experience to think of marrying ourselves first. We are more likely to dream of a wedding with someone wonderful. Marry yourself first, and you will have married someone wonderful!

Copyright 2006, Reverend Laurie Sue Brockway. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted here with permission.
Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway is a non-denominational wedding officiant and relationship coach known for her warm, loving and creative approach to blessing couples in love and helping people find true love. She's the author of Wedding Goddess (www.weddinggoddess.com) and Find Your Spiritual Soul Mate (www.selfhealingexpressions.com). She will be leading Invoking The Goddesses of Love: A Ceremonial Journey to Your Perfect Soul Mate, a workshop for women, at Kripalu in Lennox, MA, on June 9-11, 2006. For more information and registration, visit www.kripalu.org.

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Love~~

natashalivesly — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:30:36 GMT

Separation...

The transition is occuring. My Fiance, the love of my life, best friend, soulmate, whom I have spent almost every day and night with over the past year & half is asking to be free of the bonds of our commitment to eachother. We have never had a fight, there is no lack of love on either side... Just something... Unexplicable really.... He says he must do this healing on his own, though I I have been witness to his amazing growth so far (as my own amazing changes have bloomed) there is no more I can do... This really hard to accept... Confusing? Something else deeper than that ~ that I cannot hear in my own heart right now? Some love I have not met? Timing? the stars? the wrong person? questions?... I don't know. All I know is my heart is breaking, I never knew it could hurt so much. I am 33, and have never felt such a loss as this. I have never loved as this. I am trying to understand how to navigate it all. Being totally cut-off from him feels like part of me has been cut in half ~ literally unbearable, being together at times is bitter-sweet ~ but necesarry for my sanity.

How do people do this healing? I truly wish to not hold onto bitterness, nor scar my heart for new possibilties of love in the future. I feel I am still loving and supporting him through this, eventhough he is not choosing me. I truly care either way. How do you cope with the lonliness, pain and fear? Old fears that I am not worthy of love somehow (I know better, but this sure triggers so much). I am genuinly asking how others have dealt? Practically & unpractically? ~N

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love me again

BLUE — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:13:48 GMT

Caress me tonight…
Look me…
Tonight I want you….
Passionate
Kiss me……
………….
Hair mine tangle….
………………..
Love me…….
…………….
To know that you are here
Here with me

I love………
……………….
I don’t have words
For my pain
Sweet pain……..
For moment I lose my beauty
I don’t you blame
I want you love me ………..
Love me …..
………again...
…………………..
With my hands
Stretched to you
Thirsty lips…
……………
Everything wants
Body that me hurts
Desirous your touches
Volim Te………I love you
Nothing else I can’t do...
…………….
I have you
I live with you in me
Caressing
Kissing
But I don’t know to say…
………………..on this way
Until I touch with my hands
Nothing i can’t tell….
Until; I see…
Your love
Love for me

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MY LAST BREATH

BLUE — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:41:29 GMT

My last breath

I don’t have Sun any more
I don’t have my light
I am going
To live
In my dark
…….
Today
Words spoken
And this heart broken
Goes to sleep
And don’t dream
In peace of death
Only what stay to me
Today
I lose my soul
How big my love was all becomes my pain
Today
I die
Today
Is not day
All my belief
In this world gone
In everything what life can gave
I never get anything of it
I only get pain
Today
I want to say goodbye
To world
Today
I want visit place where man can’t be stone
Today I am gone
I had so much love
In this heart
What god gave to me
I had too many things
What nobody ever see
I had
Nothing of that
Couldn’t my bee
My blood
My tears
This body
Only hurt me
I am too much tired
I want to die
I don’t want to live
The best part of life
Doesn’t wait for me
Last hope gone
Everything I love I want
Cant mine be
And I had too much to give
I cant live with all this in me
To who to give
When you was the only one
Whose I wanted to be
You who I feel
Who hug
Who I love
Who I keep
Deep in me
You to who I cant say goodbye
And I must
You who I will never see
You who will live
And die today with me
My last breath
I sent to world
To God to see
What this stupid life
Can bring
To woman
How cruel life can be
I cant have freedom
I cant world you see see
I cant go from here
Where I don’t want to be
I cant
Others
Evil
People done this to me
I cant anymore
I cant anymore live

When love cant become true
In what in this life to believe
If him I will never see
In what
In what God to believe
Why you this sent to me
Why to me
Why???
I will never know
With this question I will die
I love and I will never him see…….

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i need to go

BLUE — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:31:16 GMT

I must stop
On this way
This hurts to much
This brings me pain
I cant live
I cant die
I don’t know
How
I don’t know why
I know
I cant have
What I love close to me
I cant him touch
I cant him see
This to much hurts
I cant breath
I need to run
To not this feel
I wanted to stay
But I cant anymore
I needed from you something to touch
You didn’t gave me
I needed that so mush
I wanted to hear your voice
You never called
You don’t listen
Of my pain noise
I asked!
I beg!!
You never listen
I cant you comprehend
I will keep my promise I gave to you
My love is real
My love live in true
I will stay shadow for you there
I will stay what I always be
And live in my fear
I love you
You there
Who will never see me
Who never for my little wishes care
I didn’t asked too much
Just answer
Will you ever come
will I ever see you and touch

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happy V-day

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:04:30 GMT

from http://LOVEspace.org

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Lyrics by King Crimson

abeanstalk — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:23:09 GMT

Moonchild
Call her moonchild
Dancing in the shallows of a river
Lovely moonchild
Dreaming in the shadow
Of the willow.

Talking to the trees of the
Cobweb strange
Sleeping on the steps of a fountain
Waving silver wands to the
Night-birds song
Waiting for the sun on the mountain.

She's a moonchild
Gathering the flowers in a garden.
Lovely moonchild
Drifting on the echoes of the hours.

Sailing on the wind
In a milk white gown
Dropping circle stones on a sun dial
Playing hide and seek
With the ghosts of dawn
Waiting for a smile from a sun child.

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blanket Satement

chrischimp — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:49:25 GMT

Thank you all musicians,movie makers,blanket bearers,participants,event staff, egg heads,and monkey puzzlers
(espically CLINTO without whom none of the amplitude or illumination would be possible)
thanks to all of your efforts, the Janus Youth Program recieved 76 blankets, sleeping bags and toasty items! just in time!
Due to the tragic events in NewOrleans the usual Government grant blankets were NOT available to Janus as usual,
So your contirbution is most timely and needed.
So Nice WON everybody.
You all deserve a HAND,JOB well done.
See you in the Spiritwhirled.

stay tuned ......indoit
Always
Christiano

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Comments on the importance of self love

Wooden_Rooster — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:06:00 GMT

I am working on an essay on the importance of self love, but I'm suffering a little writers block. I want to incorporate emotional, holistic, mental health, relationships, happiness, success, intentional living, and techniques to help your self grow without becoming narcissistic.

I won't plagerise anyone, I'm just looking for ideas and multiple points of view. Anyone want to help?

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show your stuff!ng Covers&Blankets III

chrischimp — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:04:28 GMT

So you say you want to participate in the Covers&Blankets III Show
but you don't sing or play music?
Well thats just Dandy. We want to see and hear what you've got anyway.
Just put together a 2-4 min. Video or photo album on dvd with one of your favorite cover tunes(itunes and imovie work great for this) and we will project them night of the show on a BIG screen from 7-9 pm and through out the evening. These "shorts" can be of any subject matter you choose, but we suggest family style, creative or humorus content and of course, being a FAMJAMILY event, save the homestyle porno for another night,
please try to stick to the COVERS theme and have fun with it.

Specs.
2 to 4 miniutes long (some exceptions may apply)
Photo or Viedo montage to music
DVD or Digi video cam with av out.

So come on...
Show your stuff!ng
Any qusetions feel free to tribe me.

P.S. Don't forget your Blanket Statement

Christiano

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Cherish Your Self First

WhiteSage — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:48:21 GMT

Cherishing You
Falling In love With Yourself

Many people, in seeking out love, tend to look outward rather than inward. Yet falling in love with yourself can be just as wonderful an experience as falling in love with someone else. While the idea of falling in love with ourselves may be perceived as conceited or selfish, choosing to fall in love with who you are is a powerful act of self-love.

When you fall in love with yourself, you can't help but experience a wonderful sense of discovery. You begin to look at yourself again through fresh eyes, becoming more attentive to the little details that make you so unique. Once you discover how much there is about you to fall in love with, you can't help but want to treat yourself as lovingly and respectfully as you would treat anyone who is special to you. You start to give to yourself more because you become more attentive to your own needs and desires.

Choosing to fall in love with yourself is a very personal process that takes time. There is no magic wand you can wave to make this just happen. But there is the magic of your intention and the power of your actions, whether you are taking the time to do the activities you like, speaking to and treating yourself with respect, taking inventory of all your wonderful qualities and accomplishments, or nurturing yourself with plenty of rest and self-care. When you fall in love with yourself, you begin to see yourself more positively, appreciate your unique outlook on life, and treat yourself in a more nurturing way. In loving yourself, you are acknowledging that you are special and deserving of love. Best of all, you are giving yourself one of the greatest gifts you have to give another. You are giving yourself the gift of your love.

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~She Reminds Me~

Joshua~* — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:11:01 GMT

~She reminds me of the sun, giving warmth on a cold, frosty day
~She reminds me of the words, one thinks but never can say
~She reminds me of the water, nurturing life inside Mother Nature's womb
~She reminds me of the sunset, that is breathtaking, yet leaves so soon~

~She reminds me of wind chimes, bringing harmony to one's ears
~She reminds me of a teddy bear, taking away one's worries & fears
~She reminds me of a reflection, which stares back truthfully
~She reminds me of a jungle, captivating & full of mystery~

~She reminds me of a goddess, giving meaning to the word beauty
~She reminds me of an Angel, breathing life through ingenuity
~She reminds me of a poet, her words so soft & sweet
~She reminds me of a stranger, whom I was somehow destined to meet...

~This was written about my soulmate... I wonder when the universe will connect us... =) I thought I would share with you... =) =) =)

J.

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Love....

Jahan — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:21:56 GMT

...Is there really such a thing?? I mean, pure love...without jealousy...without pettiness...without all the baggage that too people bring with them into a relationship? I guess that it is a possibility....I haven't found anything close ..and to be honest have given up the search. I guess if someone appears..I might be tempted to try again...but really, what are the chances of that?`

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autumn love...

michaelspad — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:40:05 GMT

We drift through the falling leaves of autumn
as winter aproches
the shutters close and fires we light
fires not only in the home
but in the soul .
Loves illusive touch can be so fleeting ...

We look to the night sky and wish for spring
and the new blades of grass
and the voice of someone who we have never met
and ask ourselves if we will see the mornings light
and feel the suns warm rays again
But as in all things
time is our friend
and time will bring us to find
ourselves and our love within .... surrounding...
and the flowers of spring and the warmth of a new
day.
Dawn is comming very soon I say!
so look listen
and know
that we can never dance alone . and the path we
drift along
is always a shaired path
in Love.

Rain
10/05

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loving gratitude

freewil4u — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:21:43 GMT

Take action to be the change we wish to co create. Please click on this free link.

www.gogratitude.com/

This powerful intention will manifest peace. Please go to the link above and flow with love.
reply to this post

Grateful in all ways. Lead into "Love Rains"
This is my best effort at expressing the love and gratitude felt for all.

Thank you all for being and shining love always,
Openness empowers this journey in new ways,
Growth and lessons found exploring all ways,
Openly expressed paths brighten the ways.
Others walking beside or leading a way,
Love flows gratefully this day and always.

Love all;Freewil

ps;Wrote the following to an earth angel Laura Love that shared tears over this expression. She moderates a heart felt circle. link below all are welcome
imtakiniton.tribe.net/
Wrote a poem for her before Earth Angel. It's in the first poetry tread on the link below. All are welcome.
tribe.net/visionsorintentionstowardoneness

Love Rains

To touch a heart so sweet,
Gives meaning to the meek,
Kissing tears from your cheek.

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inspired reading

ladysalt — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:31:35 GMT

hey, can we open up a little bibliography of works-to-read? i'm thinking books about loving, listening, the art of being together, the art of being with yourself, spiritually expansive works, down-to-earth works. we can go fiction, philosophy, (dare i say it?--)self help (there's gotta be a better term), non-ficion, inspired biographies, poetry, whatever will enrich.
i need a little inspiration, and ya'll seem like a good resource to turn to.
thanks for your ideas,
*s*

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Love's an action, a verb not a noun

queend — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:21:05 GMT

A friend of mine wrote the above on her journal describing love. This sentence kept me thinking, and it was what I needed to hear at this moment. I looked up love in the dictionary, and it can be used as a verb or noun, however, I prefer the verb. LOVE IS AN ACTION, wow! I would rather think of love that way, it often seems so passive when people say it to eachother you know? "I love you so and so" and then they hug eachother and start crying or something like that and there is deep emotion...and then suddenly those emotions might go away, and they would argue or wont help out the other person etc...and you wonder what happened when this person said I love you? Did they really mean it?

I have said I love you to many people, I feel the emotions of love, sometimes profoundly and intensly for this whole planet, I have talked and prayed to god intensly with blissful feelings of love for his everythingness, yet in the morning I struggle sometimes to do his work, alien negative thoughts and feelings have invaded my space, sometimes I do not fully take action on these profound feelings of love. Its like they go away sometimes...and you have to fight back to feel them in order to get through the day.

Love is an action! When you are paralized and you are not, doing your yoga, you are not eating the right food, you are not saying smiling, you are not offering help, you are not giving of your time, energy to helping the world unselfishly, you are not helping your wife or children or husband or friend, thats when you fully arent feeling love.

Take a look at the word EMOTION it has the word MOTION in it. Love should create motion or action. When you are not taking loving action at every moment then you are doing the opposite of love.

This is the hardest challenge to be in the action of love. I pray to you god help all of us that desire to love you completely in any way you can. I know its our job to choose action of love, not yours, however I pray that you help us with constant inspiration. Amen!

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loveflow II

jalex — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:23:47 GMT

LOVE LIFE

life's a great lay
i love her and leave her
she devours my flesh when i'm done
i learn everything i need from her
she burns in me
i yearn for her
what fun!

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love and curiosity

jmparker — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:13:18 GMT

Do you think a person's love can be measured by their curiosity in the beloved?

For example, when your lover does something that pisses you off, is it more 'loving' to wonder WHY they did that, than simply to react?

Or not? Is is just a question of people's natures?

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Love vs. "In" love

JeanetteJohnson — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:57:29 GMT

I want to know your oppinions. What does it mean to you, to be "in love" with someone? To some people there may not be a distinction, but many times I've heard people say that they love some one but are not IN love with that person. What would you say is the differrence between loving someone and being in love with someone?

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deep eyes

jmparker — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:57:14 GMT

deep brown eyes
deep blue eyes

what makes eyes 'deep?'

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SEPT 22 MEDITATION!!!!

CharlesYOGA — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:59:09 GMT

this is great! i did it this morning and i was caught in a trance.

http://www.benevolentmagic.blogspot.com/

New Information On The September 22 Toning Event
I'd like to share something with you all today. There is a time coming up for you on September 22 of this year, 2005. You will have an opportunity to improve the quality of spiritual alignment for all Human Beings on Earth.
If you can make the tone any time of your time on September twenty second, make a tone of aaaahhhh, ooooooo, or nnnnnnn for as close as you can get to four minutes and fifty eight seconds or five minutes and two seconds or in between that - that's the best amount of time.
Of course you'll have to breathe and make the tones as best you can during that time, then it can accelerate the spiritual growth of all Human Beings on Earth to what is called a Creator's Apprentice. What this means is that your capacity to create will be increased while at the same time the safeguards on the type of creation that you do will be accentuated, meaning that you will not be allowed to create as much discomfort and disharmony as Humans have done in the past for themselves and for others. Those creations will not be supported. You will however, be able to create more harmony and more benevolence. Those creations will be supported.
This time will be stimulating, on that date September twenty second, that capability. It will work best if there are 183,982 of you doing it or more and that's already been organized somewhat. I hope those of you who read this do that. If you have any further questions about it, you can go to www.sedonajournal.com. There's an article right there on their home page.
I want to also accentuate for those of you who may not feel comfortable with things identified as New Age that this in no way interferes with religion or religious principals what ever they are. It strictly has to do with the Creator and all of us and since Creator did create us, I've been guided and inspired to pass on this information as it is something for which we can come closer to Creator.
I know we're all waiting for that time when Creator will hug us and welcome us home but while we are here in this school of Earth we have the opportunity to be the apprentice and as any good apprentice, we must learn many things and do many things before we can actually begin to learn the skills or even learn about the skills that Creator does with such well intended benevolence. Benevolent Magic, this site, is intended to expose you to as much of that as possible and it's intended, not to complicate your life but to simplify your life.
So this short contribution by you and by others, if you'd care to share it, will be something that is acceptably done anytime during your 24 hour day of September 22, whenever you'd like to do it. I feel there's a good chance that we'll make that number. If however that number is not achieved, which is not likely but is vaguely possible, then it will be possible there will be another time to do it sometime within the next three years. You won't have to wait for three years but within the next three years.
I hope you enjoy doing this and I hope you appreciate, I know I have, this new information about what this toning will do and what it will support and what will be the result. Goodlife to you all.

http://www.benevolentmagic.blogspot.com/

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somebody you already know

jmparker — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:10:31 GMT

Has anyone here ever fallen for someone they've already known as a friend for a long time?

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Scholarship Raffle is still on...

natashalivesly — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:44:56 GMT

How would you like to win your choice of:

*A two hour massage gift certificate from Metta Massage

*A day of housecleaning

*A dinner for two at the restaurant of your choice (perfect if you don't live in town)

*A very fine bottle of wine (delivered to you wherever you might be).

_______________________________________________________

Hi again! The Scholarship raffle is still happening, we are 1/2 way to the first goal thanks to the generous gifts of our friends and family! A heads up that we will be drawing the first prize on the Equinox (beginning of fall) Sept 21st at the Abundance gathering.

For all of those who wish to contribute you can still do so either by paypal:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=tabatosh%40yahoo%2ecom&item_name=scholarship%20raffle&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&charset=UTF%2d8&charset=UTF%2d8

or send a check to:

3903 North Borthwick Ave
Portland, Oregon 97227

ANY donation (a quarter, a dollar, 5, 10 a million) will be graciously appreciated. It all counts. A million pennies make... well, not sure exactly but a lot more than a penny!

One donation (any price you choose) gets your name in the hat one time... everyone has an equal chance of winning no matter what you are able to gift.

Dom has been working double time and two jobs to create this dream (he needs about $7,000 total to make this a reality) it is as much as he can do on his own, and so we are turning to our community.

If you missed it before, all donations will go to Domonic's schooling, licensing, transportation and living expenses for his first 3 months.

Its a lot to create on your own in a short time! But I believe all is possible and I am committed to helping facilitate that dream.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS. there will probably be a couple consolation prizes along with the big prize, I will contact all winners and post names.

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LOVE-FLOW

jalex — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:20:02 GMT

my love is never spent
it gets bigger as it burns
it swells as it yearns for more love
kiss me and take off your kid gloves
when my playpush comes to your loveshove
our hearts become two doves and fly...

love cannot be lost, it cannot die
or be left in the pockets of your discarded threads
our days are not done
even after we're dead
and i can't ignore...
should we not stare...
at the angels that dwell in the thin, shared air
and in the light reflecting off our eyes?

do you want to know where heaven lies?
it lies inside your heart, behind your eyes...
i felt it when your eyes met mine,
kindling fires divine.
when your hands touched my thighs
i knew it was wise
to come down off this high
heaven pie in the sky cloud nine.
when you bounced your butt against me
nonchalantly
at a party
my loins wept and cried.
i know i would be fine
without this
spun bliss
but would have
just one kiss
to remember it by.

my
dream-filled passion
will not be rationed
out like slop in a soup-line
my
unbroken promises are uncut and feel fine
This magical moment
melts into tomorrow
making memories from
destinies faded late.
the fates resurrect our beauty and bliss
in each merciful moment, never wait
moving us with sublime alchemies
to realms outside of time.

Put your fists in the air
suck wind
"H A M"
unclench your fists, let go...
drop your arms and blow
"S A"
this is how one feels the flow
come get some
L O V E
to stoke the glow of your heartfire's hearth
make some art and give it away on the street
beat your meat in public if you want
sacrifice yourself in the hunt
for the love-flow.

don't close your hand.
L E T G O.

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leavin' love

ladysalt — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:42:27 GMT

after three years with the man i thought i could hold onto forever, seems i must be moving on. so many tears, so much sorrow when i hold his knees or remember our late-night giggling...
just asking for some thoughts and prayers as i branch out into a new era of solitary mornings and a bed so wide. maybe if you all dream me solid, it will hold me through...
tell me some stories of separation transformed into realized dreams of flight.
in love and with love,
*s*

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Scholarship Raffle!

natashalivesly — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:33:24 GMT

Its my birthday today! Happy to be on the planet, grateful to the endless joys of my life, to the richness and depth in which I choose to live, and of course to the support and unending love I feel from my community and friends.

Today I wish to thank someone in particular who has touched my heart and mind in an unexpected and wonderful way. I am referring to my partner Domonic.

Today on the day of my birth I am proposing a game. The game of making someones dreams come true (after all I am the Wishgiver hee hee). Domonic is trying with all his might right now to get enough money to go to real estate school, get his license, save for enough to live on while starting, and acquire a working vehicle. All of this must happen within the next couple months as he has been possibly offered a golden opportunity to have a job waiting for him with an amazing company.

Its a lot to create in a short time! But I believe all is possible and I am committed to helping facilitate that dream.

I also believe in Domonic and in the support of my community of friends and family.

So here is the game...

I am throwing a raffle...

I am hoping you will buy a ticket...

The prizes are your choice of:

A two hour massage gift certificate from Metta Massage, a day of housecleaning, a dinner for two at the restaurant of your choice, or a very fine bottle of wine (sent to you wherever you might be).

Here is how it works... make a small or large donation to either my paypall account at:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=tabatosh%40yahoo%2ecom&item_name=scholarship%20raffle&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&charset=UTF%2d8&charset=UTF%2d8

or send a check to:

3903 North Borthwick Ave
Portland OR 97227

and then e-mail (tabatosh@yahoo.com)or send me your name and I will put it in the hat. Your name will be visible but your donation amount can be private if you wish. Feel free to pass this on to any friends you think might like to play.

Thank You!!!!!!!! And again Thank You!!!!!

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:)

abeanstalk — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:36:33 GMT

I've been thinking about our fortune
And I've decided that we're really not to blame
For the love that's deep inside us now
Is still the same.
And the sound we make together
Is the music to the story in your eyes
It's been shining down upon me now
I realise.

Listen to the tide slowly turning,
Wash all our heartaches away.
We're part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build for another day

But I'm frightened for your children
And the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we've been waiting for
Will turn to rain.

When the final line is over
And it's certain that the curtain's gonna fall
I can hide inside your sweet innocent love
For evermore

Listen to the tide slowly turning,
Wash all our heartaches away.
We're part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build for another day

But I'm frightened for your children
And the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we've been waiting for
Will turn to rain.

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Building Trust

Blessica — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:42:04 GMT

Unconditional love I have - loving into & past growing pains, watching the beloved make mistakes & deeply learn from them, continuously practicing the fierce power of attending to the strongest & brightest in each other, & always finding love there, glimmering amongst the ashes & telling the truest of truths.

And I have been hurt in this alliance - there is no way to deny it.

So I ask you, masters & mistresses of the highest art: how do you consciously build trust between two who love & have hurt each other?

It is almost as if I need a way to speak directly to my nervous system. My mind has reason to believe there is no longer danger here, my heart knows the love that pulses between us, my spirit recognizes this spirit as kindred... yet, memories of abuse & betrayal spark up as we get closer again. I'm sure that time will ease things, bring new experiences to rely upon. But are there ways to accelerate this process?

Have you mended a broken trust? Please share...

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Dream

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:45:30 GMT

Love your path as much as the dream, for your path is the dream.

A dream is just a journey, to one's own perception of paradise.

Love.

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on desire...For P.B., Me and...You

NanooNanoo — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:04:56 GMT

It seems evident to me that there is an inherent paradox of the human mind. That paradox is that the very things that draw us to the object of our desire often become the very things that drive us away. Consider how in a relationship some body might want to be with somebody so badly because they are "so gentle and quiet. They seem so centered and collected." A few months later the same person might be heard complaining. "oh, he has no opinions. I feel like I am doing all of the talking. I like more assertive men..." Our desires will always change so that we will always want something else. Desire keeps itself alive with new desire. Desire is a separate creature from our Self. I try to remind myself of this so that I do not allow myself to become too attached to any one desire. But desire is such a powerful, blinding force. May we be guided by our Selves and not the ever-changing illusion of desire. May we all find beauty in our Selves. It is my struggle and I imagine I'm not alone...
“Tyaginaike Amritatvamanasuhu.” (Through renunciation, the knowledge of the beauty of the self is attained.)

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I NEED LOVE!

poweredbyatari — Fri, 06 May 2005 03:58:07 GMT

This is cry for help, not a pathetic attempt at getting some random tribester in the sack, nor is it an attempt to whore myself out for attention. But I figured since this was the LOVE tribe this would be the best place to make this kinda request.

I'm going thru some rather significant and frightening life changes at the moment which are at times exhilarating, but most of the time leaves me feeling rather confused and scared. What I need is love. I'm not talking about sex, or pats on the head, or kisses on the cheeks, or even a good strong bear hug. I need to feel the vibrations of love pointed at me, even if it is for only 30 seconds after you read this post. It can be any kind of love: fraternal love, sensual love, positive healing love, even love of pancakes will work.

I'm not asking for much, just a little positive energy to hopefully jumpstart me outta this funk.

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Arcade Fire

jmparker — Fri, 13 May 2005 22:36:43 GMT

They say it fits if you let it
Love is made to forget it
I carved your name across my eyelids
You prayed for rain
I prayed for blindness

If you still want me
Please forgive me
The crown of love is falling from me

The only thing that you keep changing is your name
My love keeps growing
Still the same
Just like a cancer
And you won't give me a straight answer

If you still want me
Please forgive me
The crown of love
Is now upon me

You've got to be the one
You've got to be the way...

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NEW EVENT! Play, Grow,Celebrate, Evolve

Jim — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:50:00 GMT

WHAT: It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood

CO-HOSTS: The Beloved Katie Lee and Jim Wilhite

WHEN: 4:00PM, Friday, October 14 thru Sunday, October 16 (you can stay until Monday at 1:00PM if you wish)

WHERE: The Gorgeous Anderson Lodge. Prepare for a magical treat. Surrounded by forests on top of an isolated hill. Hiking trails,
awesome sights of nature, a huge hot tub, fireplaces, outdoor fire circle, very private. All the amenities you can imagine.
Oregon weather in mid-October is magical; 72-82 degrees, the leaves turning rainbow colors as the season changes.

WHY: We all share common goals. We want to be happy, joyous and free. We want to celebrate life and love every day. We want to experience spiritual growth and transformation. Trans: to go beyond, to go beyond form.

Every spiritual path has a common statement from the Bible to Native American, Buddhist, Talmud etc......."Except you become as a child, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven", heaven being your Higher Self. One spiritual master teaches you will never activate your Higher Self unless you approach it as a five year old.

This event will be structured to teach us to live in the immediacy of the moment with joy, glee, uninhibited play and celebration.
Young children have an amazing sense of freedom, lack of modesty and they live in the moment. For that reason, this event will be clothes optional.

Games, ceremonies, rituals, a very special ceremony for releasing the past. A coming together of the tribe in a spirit of love, compassion and childlike celebration. Baptism into Eternal Childhood. Don't expect long winded circles of talking. You will be DOING every moment!

This event is not exclusive. By all means invite those you feel could be a future part of us, a coming together of different tribes who hold a common purpose.

THE AGREEMENT: We encourage there be no alcohol or drugs until the final ceremony Saturday evening. Then it will be party time and anything goes.

Children create natural highs by being totally present in each moment. Many times adults use substances to achieve a state of uninhibited play. We are going to experience that high in a clear authentic organic state. This natural state of childlike bliss is but one of many gifts awaiting you.
No "Booze Cops" will be present. It's your choice.

No closed doors. Please bring a box of crayons and a water pistol or water gun. Be prepared for the water fight of the century in childlike nekkid glee! Please bring your favorite sayings and inspirational messages for the Angel Tree. Also, I have 60 bottles of bubbles in my office for a bubble blowing extravaganza.

Gifting will be everyone bringing an inexpensive toy that you will eventually give to someone your Higher Self guides you to give it to.

Be on time for each event. We will start right on time!
7-10PM,Fri., 1-4:30PM Sat., 7 til approx. 9:30PM Sat.
Sunday at 3:00PM coming together for a final circle and closure.

COST: $85 per person. Limited Attendance!, first come, first served. This is peak season at the lodge so it is a bit more expensive. As it is, we were able to broker a lower price. It is possible we can eventually offer a $5 to $20 refund, but we need to make sure we cover the expenses.
HERE IS WHERE WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Since this is the peak season, we need to come up with over $1,200 in deposits.
So we REALLY need some very prompt payments to cover the deposits.

We would also be eternally grateful for any cash donations to cover Sunday morning community breakfast, scholarships for anyone who cannot afford to come and the cost of materials for the event. This could easily run as much as $10 per person which is not included in the cost of the event.

Mail your check made out to:

Jim Wilhite
7046 NE Oregon St.
Portland, OR 97213
Phone (503) 253-7501 email: James3322@aol.com
OR
Katie Lee
1008 20th St., Apt. 8
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Phone (512) 619-6988 email: kmlmonkeylove@hotmail.com

We are excited! We can't wait to come together to play, grow, celebrate and evolve.

Bundles of love, joy and happiness,
Katie and Jim

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All time favorite love song~

mermaid — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:41:42 GMT

Getting ready for a love vacation with the love of my life up in Alaska. I want to make a few amazing cds. What are your all time favorite love songs?

xoxoxo
mermaid

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Burlesque, Belly Dancing, Comedy, Poetry, Music

Jim — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:59:16 GMT

For the Portland Gang!

Open Mic night at Tribe Theatre, this Monday, May 2, 10:00PM.
NW Glisan and NW 5th, so. side of Glisan, by donation

Featuring our fantastic AliKat doing her burlesque dance and a belly dance. Lots of other exciting doings. Anyone can sign up to perform. And maybe a guest artist that you all truly love.
Audience participation, a loving ritual that will leave you glowing.
Yours truly will be the MC.
Tell your friends, bring a gang with you. Lots of people you know will be there.

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Love at first sight

Have Faith — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:07:12 GMT

It came up in conversation today, so I am curious if others have experienced this. Do you believe in it? Hope for it?

My last two loves have been at first sight. I wonder if I am destined for this only... or is it like lightning, unlikely to even strike twice?

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t.honey

t_honey — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:49:15 GMT

like a honey bee
to your petal
i love you without shame
for my name is written
in your blooming eyes

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I know it's not good to want it too much, but...

NanooNanoo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:05:06 GMT

Do I want to share a relationship with somebody? Indeed. When is that wanting "too much?" And besides, it seems as if I can't help myself. One might say it is my karma to be experiencing this strong desire, so, should I roll with it or should I pause and question this desire more?

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my beloved approaches

gregóire — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:58:12 GMT

today i felt my heart stretch open, revealing a space i've never known, and a beautiful fire filled my chest. i gasped.

i felt her, inside my body. as if we'd already met, already spent the last five years in unspeakable bliss. i can almost smell her on my skin.

i don't know if she'll come tomorrow, or three years from now. it doesn't matter. i can feel her right now.

what a joy this is! i wonder if she felt it too.

gregoire
del ubik

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She's good to me :)

abeanstalk — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:11:48 GMT

Plan your life around
The choicest local words available at the market
Select an assortment of verbiage
With varying colors and textures

Let the Good Housebleeping Cookbook be your Thoreau
Linger over the rhythm of the recipes
Season your kitchen like Walden

Chop your ingredients into distinctive shapes
Warm over a steady flame with close attention
Garnish with some hint of surprising spice
Some cooling aromatic herbs

Arrange the settings on tablecloth
As an artist does on his tableau
Serve each course at leisure
Enjoy each in its proper sequence
Take care to refill the glass before it empties.

Play a score that will soothe
Two candles will be light enough.

Compose each plate as carefully
As a songwriter each verse

When the grapes have been plucked
The stem has served its purpose

The space between courses
Is as important to the poem
As is the emptiness of a stomach
To a healthy appetite.

Save some room
For the sweet punchline.

Can I pour you some dark import?
Can you taste the cinnamon?

Mmm, I love it when people appreciate my cooking.
It was made with love.

There are some words left over
So I'll just wrap them up
And put them in the fridge for tomorrow
I can't tell you the recipe exactly
It comes out different every time

The red tiger that paces within my rib cage
The heart captive and solitary
Aching as it must to be uncaged
A desire so intense to see not what is
Internal vision so bright it blots out true sight

Impatiently, impatiently waiting
I have foreseen it a hundred thousand different ways
A face with such charisma
Enchants my eyes like some fairy’s flower
I am spellbound

Her hair is red or it is black
She is tall or short
Her features are round or narrow
Her gentle words caress the ears

How cruel to hide the key to my prison
In the most remote and guarded court
Of some yet unknown lady’s heart
My heart, like some dry inert powder
Finding in you some needed element quickens

Nothing can be seen but you
Miraculously the moon full fills the sky
Your brow becomes a landscape
Under the loving lens

Some hearts like luggage
Have been packed too full
Straining; bursting to open

But the heart opens itself like a light
Radiant and warming
As it pours itself out, it receives more and grows

And any confinement
Would not be too small or dark
To share with my loved one
The universe is in her and a sun

The stir-crazy tiger can be still
And breathe deeply, and content
The air seems honey sweet
No words are needed

Quiet wants to hear her breath
My cheek to feel its warmth

Intimacy a mountain
So magnificent
That its creation is beyond conceiving
And its absence unimaginable

When my eyes first meet hers,
Words may clumsily spill from my mouth
As if escaping from the roiling battlefield of my brain
She will hear what I’m not saying
Unfinished sentences perfectly understood

Griefs shared will weigh lighter
Desserts shared will taste sweeter

The heart-spring opens and
By mixing is enriched irrevocably
No effort can sort out from the heart
What it has once taken in

Two lovers lie motionless, enmeshed
He immersed in a single wrinkle of her skin
And she in the comfort of the sound of his breathing.

At last, everything is one.
At first, everything is one.
No two ever derived from separate sources
Nor one from the other.
Both originate in the unity.
Both are destined for unity.

Along the way from oneness to oneness
Complementarity breaks down into polarity
The two share an intersection
Which takes on the appearance of a boundary
Instead of a connection

In the molecule we examine ourselves,
Our positive and negative electrical charge balance
That keeps two particles as one compound
Electrical charge which can not be sustained alone
Not alone.

Sorrow resisted seeks deeper sorrow.
Sorrow once embraced fully
Having reached the end of the cave
Turns its face again to the light of joy.

Joy prefers sorrow to the stony-hearted
Sorrow is the lens bent to magnify joy
The chasm between joy and suffering she loves to leap
Joy is so vast that one candle in the hand of joy
Will push back the black night

As much as the sun loves to shine,
It does not love its own rays the most,
But delights in dusk and dawn
When it merges and mixes with shadow
At the edge of illumination

Airy waters fall to earth, seeking the sea's basin.
Rain carries air into the soil
Water in earth as air is in water
And gathers to it minerals and salts.
The seas massage the coast
And know themselves by their shores.

And on a beach two beings walk
Hand in hand
Her left hand fits into his right
His bare feet impress the sand more deeply than hers

His rough skin catches the fog
Her smooth face glows with the light reflected
Off sand and sea

His strength allows her gentleness
Her gentleness may bring out his strength or his gentleness
And let his strength elicit her strength

We know words can only hint and approximate
Strength does not oppose gentleness
True strength is gentle

When strength becomes brutality
Delicacy becomes frailty
Any quality unmoderated by its complement becomes extreme
A hum quiet but incessant becomes deafening

The magnitude of the crime is yet unrealized
Strong men will weep

Two faces of virtue seen
Through two eyes
Resolve into one.
Active and passive
We must balance and merge all these
Within ourselves, male and female

Woman, vouch safe your femininity
Do not let your softness harden
Do not wear down your nails or cut your hair
Wear it long and flowing

Daughter, seek out and emulate
Some model of elegance
Sister, cultivate those qualities
We only read about in fairy tales

Women may weld and rivet while men battle
The battle may be won
The home may be lost
Make your boys into men
But not your girls

Confusion is rampant
Men wear long hair and earrings
Women wear short hair and pants

God, preserve the endangered species
Of the feminine woman.
Dress her in bright colors
Enthrone her beside the highest man
Let no man debase her.

Choose up the lowest woman
Let royalty kiss her feet
More reverently than a Pope
Might kiss the Earth.

Let men smell of sweat
And cover them with dust
Let women compound perfumes
And step on coats over mud

O giver of every gift
Blind me with the radiant sun
Blind me with a blanket of snow
If I ignore your glory in one water droplet
Will you remind me
You will, you will flood me in the next moment
With an ocean
And I will praise your glory in every drop.

Liberator of souls
Pierce my eyes with the sight of a woman
Pierce my heart with a woman
Deafen me with her sweet soft singing

There is nothing I more want to hear
Let a love song be the last thing I hear
It will reverberate and echo
On her song I will feast.

After
When the monks in their orange robes have departed
Incense smoke has dissipated
The horns and symbols have faded
The colored sands have been swept away
We will have to open our eyes and go out.

When the ship unmoored
Puts out to sea
Exuberance springs
From the opening rift

Has the origin been wholly relinquished?
Some unnoticed earth clod carried along
As if caught inadvertently in the tread of a shoe
Or some momento cherished like a relic

My sea-floor is littered with anchors
Anchors dragging leave the sea-bed scarred
Although at times I drifted without
In some storms I have cast them over all sides
Sea-weed clings to the anchor hoisted on deck
Others abandoned will never be retrieved

The hull-cradle wave rocked
Foam-sung lullaby
Destination day-dreams
To make them real
We must awake

To ships miles out at sea
Wind carries
Tropic island fragrance

One grape among a bunch
Prescient of its auspicious fate
Sweetens with such fervor

A grain of sand lusts for the fire
That will fuse it into the wine bottle

Dull routine blindingly polished by anticipation
Plantings tended with more lavish intoxicated merriment
Than a toast to the guest of honor

Your smile, kind word, warm embrace
Poise, sun-like grace
Leave their trace
On my mind’s retina

Romance a journey mythic
Navigated by the stars
Informed by the highest ideals
A duet played on new instruments

Arrow-straight arrow
Yearning to be strung, drawn, released.
The harp-bow sends forth a musical missile
Guided by amour and admiration.

Countless envelopes tear open today.
The stacked sum of words
Adds up to nearly nothing, compared to one.
Few notes carry so much yet weigh so lightly.

Let the telephone ring
My voice it is not this time.
Ring, telephone; not this time.
Until I call will you enjoy hoping?

I would have sent you a rose, but could not send just one.
I would have sent a bunch, but
One does not present a flower to a garden.
I would pave your path with petals before you, but
It would be less fragrant than the trail you leave behind

The earth longs to feel your bare feet,
The hardwood floor you make wish it could dance

In me you ignite a spark
But the spark says, "I already exist within you."
"I am immortal, independent."
In one sparkle a conflagration waits in possibility
In the ashes the spark though missing is there.

The still lips of a diva
An inkwell capped
A blank book
These hold the possibility of infinite praise
Everything is cradled in the void,
But one spot may fill it.

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Are any of you in Washington?

NanooNanoo — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:18:49 GMT

Yeah, the subject heading says it all. I am in Olympia and I was just wanting to meet up with people near me. Bye.

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Symptoms of Love

Rebeccas_here — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:00:48 GMT

Hi all,

I have been doing a lot of thinking in the wake of splitting with my husband and, more importantly, opening myself up again to emotional intimacy. It's a fantastic feeling and I am so enthused--I feel like I am waking up again after years of being somnambulent.

But I am a Capricorn and a practical girl. It's hard to see, when filtered through the lens of a decade of dissatisfaction, to know whether I think I was 'in love' with my ex. So, among other things, I have started polling people about the 'symptoms' of being in love.

Some I have collected so far:

You think about your beloved when you are apart
You smile when you think of them or see them
You can do mundane things together and have a ball
You are at least as good, or better, together than when apart
You feel that your beloved is going to be a part of your life--there is not as much insecurity.

I would add that, if what's happening with me is falling in love (among other things):

There's a beautiful feeling of effervescence in my chest sometimes in connection with my beloved
I even love talking through conflict, for each of those conversations is opening us a little more to each other.

Anyone have other 'symptoms' for this practical girl? If nothing else, it's fun to think about how you feel around or about your love.

Cheers and happy Wednesday!

R

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Love and Fear

kimberleechristian — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:56:13 GMT

I have given my love freely to another person. I am happy to have done so because this person is amazing, wonderful and warms my heart. In 2 1/2 months I have been more honest and open with this friend than I was with the man I was going to marry after five years. That scares me and also makes me feel so free and real.
There is now a little bit of fear thrown in with my love. My sweet friend is battling some inner demons & past issues. He needs time to be alone. As I love him, I am more than grateful to allow this as we all need processing time to heal our wounds.
My fear and head tripping comes into play here...every lover I have had that has needed this time in the past has left or freaked out leaving my heart wounded. I am trying with all of my being to let this go...this is my shit and has nothing to do with my other person. How do you push the fear aside and just love?

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Love letters

Have Faith — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:49:12 GMT

I was just pondering love letters. They are kind of an outdated phenomenon. Even as recently as ten years ago, it seemed that people were inclined to such a slow method of communication. And what a loss it is! Oh, to be able to open a real envelope, and read the letter again and again, in any place. Seeing the presentation of the letter, the color of ink and the style of paper... the shape of an S or a G... the slant of the words... it all says as much as the words.

When I lived in Portland as a teenager I encountered fliers around town soliciting love letters. The solicitor promised to send a t-shirt and other gifts to the letter writers. Of course I sent a love letter, written to a man I'd never met. A few months later I got my t-shirt. It said I "heart" Josh (that was his name.)

Have you got an interesting story of a love letter?

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what do you love besides people?

gregóire — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:06:27 GMT

for me, music tops the list. driving, especially in nyc. french toast, the more sinful the better. deep conversations. beauty.

and you?

gregoire
del ubik

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Any love found here?

NanooNanoo — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:39:33 GMT

The title says it all really. I just want to know if any of you have made some connections here (on tribe) that warrant a good story to share. Go ahead, tell your stories, we would love to hear them............................................................I betcha can't.

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with love on my side

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:46:42 GMT

the world will be mine....

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a necessary question

NanooNanoo — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:01:43 GMT

I browse these tribes and see so many pictures and comments. One theme that surfaces time and time again is vanity. So, here it is...What is vanity and how does it manifest itself in your life?

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cycles of love

krisblahnik — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:18:38 GMT

what are your experiences with "falling in and out" of love during the course of a relationship? how do factors of stress, illness, personal growth, etc, affect the feelings you have for your partner and yourself?

is a disappearance of the magical feelings and bliss of new love a cause for concern, or is that natural? does that bliss come back? in its same form, or in new ways?

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Another love at first sight

jmparker — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:40 GMT

Can you describe the person you fell in love with at first sight - as you saw them at that moment?

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Define love for you...

lurab — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:01:00 GMT

We've tossed around the concept of love here on our LOVE TRIBE, and you all raise good points...and, I think it all boils down to the individual, and what they need to be satisfied/fulfilled.

There are categories of love: agape, philia, eros + modern theories. These help us define what Love looks like…and what the differentiations are (if any) between lovers/friends/humanity. We must define and acknowledge love in our own terms…and by no one else’s! So, it is up to you to not only look for the love you want/need, but to communicate how you define and recognize love in your relationships.

(i.e.: I love you with all my heart, I do X,Y,Z to show you…all the time. Those are wonderful things, but they are not A,B,C, which is what I need to feel and recognize love…whether yours, or someone else’s)

Some people want the variety/complexity/freedom of Polyamory
Some people want consistency/challenge/trust of Monogamy
---(especially if you plan to breed kiddies)
Some people don't want to deal with any of it, or they are shy, or hung up, or blyssed out on themselves, or simply to difficult to mesh with others...

Whatever...just make sure you know what you want/need so that others know what you want and need, so that all of us can get our needs met and keep our hearts/minds/health intact. Cuz that love stuff...that is some crazy kooky wacky stuff. Love is the quintessential paradox of blyss/torture, fulfillment//sacrifice, history/future, legacy/epiphany, known/unknown, rational/emotional...and all that sticky-chewy-yummy stuff those movies/songs/poems/books/dive-bars/sport cars and vanity implants are perpetually inspired by.

Being “In-Love” and “Loving Unconditionally” are opposites that define the human condition, our paradox. (IMO). Since the beginning of human time…all we’ve wanted is comfort, food, safety, warmth, comfort…all very basic. And even with our advanced technology and cognitive thinking…it still breaks down to these same fundamental wants/needs. We all want love, yet even with our intellectual development we inherit a great deal of societal ego stuff. This is evidenced byhow selective or prejudiced we can be (and are!) about where our love comes from, and especially who we give our precious love to. We hold on to our hearts because it hurts…yet we all want Love, and each of us has an infinite amount of love to give!!
We are silly, aren't we?

Love has become my life work, admittedly it bbs and flows with love, put I am resolved that love is my life purpose.
It's tough work lemme' tell you, especially when I don’t “feel” love…but I’ve discovered that my reward is always going to be "Love". Just that concept alone motivates me, making every bit of my investment in time and energy a pradoxical tool of victory/defeat in the Art of Love. (Very similar to the Art of War…BTW).

I encourage each of you to define love for yourself. Take some time to read definitions & quotes, observe your relationships, reflect on your experiences, and really look into it, and define LOVE for yourself. Here is a great place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love

Please, post when you are ready. I’m entirely curious to see what Love looks like to you!!!

ooodles & heeps
Lura

Some quotes to inspire you….

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein

If I know what love is, it is because of you. ~ Hermann Hesse

Love is as unproblematic as a vehicle. The only problems are the drivers, the passengers and the road. ~ Franz Kafka

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. ~ Sophocles

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. ~ Victor Hugo

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it's really quite simple...

NanooNanoo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:10:13 GMT

I feel like a ripe fruit, a soft mango, ready to be picked and savored. Maybe I'm just hungry. I haven't eaten for several hours.

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Fortune cookie

Have Faith — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:15:12 GMT

Last night I got a fortune, which I then lost (so I'm working on memory here).

"Love that lasts is the best thing. Love lost is the second best."

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Really great day!

crimsonslumber — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 04:47:05 GMT

I just had to vent about this. I've had SUCH a good day!! There's so much love!!!

I love to love. I love it all! :D

Love and blessings,
Lyra

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out of love with love

jmparker — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:18 GMT

Hi, this might seem kind of an evil quesiton, considering this is the -=((LOVE))=- tribe, but I meant it as a kind of mirror thread of Bren-duh's "in love with love"...

Ever been sick of being in love (with a person)? Tired of it? Just ready for the ride to be over, but unable to stop being in love?
Just curious.

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In love with love........

Bren-duh-the-highness-of-the-Duh-Club — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:33:06 GMT

I look around the room and see a few familiar faces but for the most part all of y'all are new to me. It is sort of scary being in a room full of people that I don't know but hey, I just joined and have a question for ya.

Have any of y'all thought that you might have ever been in love with love at sometime in your life?

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Sex VS Love, does hot sex lead to love???

Topher420 — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:41:50 GMT

I was thinking about this topic so I thought I should post it and see what everyone else thinks...

So I am in a new relationship, we have been dating a couple of weeks. There is so much chemistry its rediculous... The sex is hot and the twiterpated feeling of a new relationship is burning. At the same time I hear myself asking is this enough?

The questions that come to mind are is hot sex enough to keep something alive and burning? What is that spark beyond the realm of physical sensation or even of active thought that has one be so alive?

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on transformation ~

pantherboy — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:34:13 GMT

i understand the deep radiant stirring turmoil of transformation, and yes we are becoming and coming into being and beginning to stand, vulnerable until the sun cures our fresh wet souls for flight ... moon moths and ravens wing, the cave is a string of living things

(sent to me by arrow one)

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Monsters of Love

mszigzag — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:43:46 GMT

I recently shared this with someone and I thought it apropos for this tribe.

What is a saint? by Leonard Cohen

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is a caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shapes of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

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falling in love is like owning a dog

mszigzag — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:17:15 GMT

I'm becoming a poetry slam junkie.

This is one of my favoritre by Taylor Mali. Enjoy.

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Falling in love is like owning a dog
an epithalamion by Taylor Mali
www.taylormali.com

First of all, it's a big responsibility,
especially in a city like New York.
So think long and hard before deciding on love.
On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:
when you're walking down the street late at night
and you have a leash on love
ain't no one going to mess with you.
Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.
Who knows what love could do in its own defense?

On cold winter nights, love is warm.
It lies between you and lives and breaths
and makes funny noises.
Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.
It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.

Love doesn't like being left alone for long.
But come home and love is always happy to see you.
It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,
but you can never be mad at love for long.

Is love good all the time? No! No!
Love can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.

Love makes messes.
Love leaves you little surprises here and there.
Love needs lots of cleaning up after.
Somethimes you just want to get love fixed.
Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper
and swat love on the nose,
not so much to cause pain,
just to let love know Don't you ever do that again!

Sometimes love just wants to go for a nice long walk.
Because love loves exercise.
It runs you around the block and leaves you panting.
It pulls you in several different directions at once,
or winds around and around you
until you're all wound up and can't move.

But love makes you meet people wherever you go.
People who have nothing in common but love
stop and talk to each other on the street.

Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.

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Heart murmurs....

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 05:24:51 GMT

I was reminded......
that I choose love, not to fill in a place that feels empty, nor to fulfill a desire that has been unquenched, i love beacause to be in love is the most beautiful action I can hope to take in this world. I love because I would like to know what it is to accept all things with an open heart....I love because the path of the boddhisatvas has laid out a map of compassion. I love because it is what I am here to do.

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The Invitation

kimberleechristian — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:26:54 GMT

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for LOVE, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ectasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another and be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from the creators presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon "YES!!!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It does not interest me where or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer~
Wow what an invitation...of others and of self

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Intimacy and no sex?

NanooNanoo — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:16:16 GMT

Tell me kids, what is it between two people who are very intimate with each other, i.e. touching, holding, sleeping together..., but who have not had sex and don't plan to? Does this circumstance usually evolve into an eventual sexual encounter? What are the limits of just "being friends?"

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a no-future-expectations affair

Babe-ra — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:38:52 GMT

Hello all - I am new here, and have really liked reading what you all have been sharing and writing about. I feel like I have been thinking about this stuff for a long time, and a forum like this seems so appropriate to ask for advice/comments/support - and hopefully I can provide the same at some point.

Anyway, I particularly felt a connection to the "love and fear" thread. I feel like I can relate to much of that. I am coming out of a short marriage to a man who had some sexuality questioning that I had not known about... a long story... but anyway, I have newly moved here to Portland and am looking for new relationships, friendships, etc. I feel like I am also in need of some healing, of being with a man who knows who he is and knows what he wants, and wants me! :)

So, I have met this lovely man who for his own reasons is not really available for a "real" relationship at this time (separated, kids involved, etc). He and I seem to have a great connection, feels very sincere and gentle. And it feels like a "reawakening" in me, a healing of a part of myself. But I have this lingering fear that I am going to get my heart broken! I know that in some ways I am also not ready for a full, real relationship - I don't want to be committed to one person right now, and have been dating a bit and trying to keep my mind and heart open, both to this man and to others. But I like this connection we have, and feel like I could long for more with him and be left disappointed.

How can I keep my heart open and feel the healing and joy and try to let go of these potential expectations? Sometimes I am able to just relax and feel and enjoy, but other times I am not so sure.....

Anyway, just some thoughts. Please share any thoughts you may have with me! Thank you!

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last night i became the moon

gregóire — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:26:53 GMT

last night i became the moon

i floated above a blueblack forest and watched my shadow skim across the floor as i raced forward. i knew my shadow was giving me away, that in order to be safe something had to change. i wished i were black as the night sky so that i could be truly invisible, my pursuer could not see me flying, and i no sooner had this thought that i realized being so black would make my shadow more visible, would in fact make it solid.

and i thought, i need to be as white as the rays of the moon herself, so that her light does not reflect off of me, i will cast no shadow. and i knew, too, that this was not the answer, that my color is fixed, changing it is not up for discussion. at last, i understood that i had to fly higher, farther from the ground, so high that i would be level with the very moon that illuminates me. in this way, i would cast no shadow.

so up i went, higher still, fast like an eagle diving backwards from the ground to the clouds, until the pressure in my head changed. it became uncomfortable, then painful, then frightening. i feared that if i climbed too high too fast i would explode, the vacuum of space would tear me open and all that was my inside would burst forth, scattering this intact body to the corners of the cosmos.

still, i climbed. and as i saw the vaporous swirls of the atmosphere drop away underneath me, the moon opened herself, spiraling from the center outward, and i fell into that tunnel, melted flesh into light in an endless dance from the core to the edges of existence.

i became the moon.

then i was laying on the floor in the pitch black, holding a ravenhaired woman in my arms and sweeping my tongue into her mouth, a kiss that pushed my essence into her and received her surrender in return. someone else was in the room, stalking, her persecutor. i shifted, moved my whole body until it curved around hers, my hand finding its way up between her thighs, pressing every cell of me into her softness, spurred on by her softly insistent moans.

'do you know you are safe?' i asked her. 'yes' came her whispered reply, and she gave over. her power flowed into me. she gave me the ability to shapeshift for protection, to take another form when the one i have exposes me to danger. together we became glistening green snakes, and her persecutor gave up, recognized the futility of doing battle with us.

she asked what it was like to become the moon, and i told her if all that was beautiful were to suddenly turn blue, and i could take that blue and paint the world with it, spill its pigment into every deep crevice where fear and darkness held court, maybe then, maybe, others would understand.

last night, i became the moon.

gregoire
del ubik

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Love after love

Have Faith — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 07:42:11 GMT

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
-Derek Walcott

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A One-Hundredth Monkey Kind of Experiment

shakti411 — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:28:33 GMT

A friend sent this to me today. It's the "Only Love Prevails" Experiment. I hope you'll have a look and then join the experiment! Please feel free to pass this around too.

Of late there have been many dark sides of the world revealing themselves to me. I have always tended to believe, as Einstein did, that a problem is never solved in the same energy that it was created in. I offer the "Only Love Prevails Experiment" as an answer to the apathy and depression that occurs around these dark and hopeless images. It is simple and follows the common laws of physics, thus following the laws of truth. I think that it's a fun way of moving out negative images and thoughts in little effort.

More information is on this site www.openheart.com/peace/peace.html

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Love on a Grand Scale--Deepak Chopra on the Tsunami

shakti411 — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:50:05 GMT

A spiritual perspective on the tsunami

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Deepak Chopra interview on Larry King Live regarding God and the Tsunami
1/7/05

KING: Deepak Chopra, how can you have faith when you see something like this?

DEEKAPK CHOPRA, AUTHOR: Hi, Larry. In fact, your faith increases, Larry.
Because faith is trusting that God is all the forces, the forces of creation, the forces of protection and the forces of destruction. This is an opportunity for us to transcend our religious differences, our ethnic boundaries, and create a new humanity which is based on love, sharing, compassion, giving.

And we are seeing that. The militaries of the world are getting together to bring relief. People are losing their differences in Sri Lanka. The Buddhists and the Hindus and the Muslims are getting together. This is our opportunity.

You know in historical traditions, in religious traditions, God rained on the earth for 40 days. And from that came Noah's Ark and the creation of a new humanity. Can we create a new humanity that is not based on militarism ethnocentrism, racism, bigotry, hatred, and prejudice?

KING: Deepak, if he loves us why does he bring us such pain that could be prevented?

CHOPRA: I think, Larry, one of the problems right now is we keep referring to God as him and his. We have a very sexist, male identity that we've given to God. I agree with Michael Lerner, that our idea of God, our concept of God, our experience of God, changes as we evolve. I think the idea of sin and punishment is very, very primitive. And we have to ask ourselves right now, are we going to choose between sin and compassion? Compassion is the way to go right now.

And you know, there's lots of evidence, even scientific, that the earth is a living organism. The gaia (ph) hypothesis. Is it possible that our consciousness and the turbulence in our consciousness has anything to do with the turbulence in nature? Michael Lerner just referred to that. One of the very interesting things that happened with the tsunami was, no animal died. The elephants. The hares. The rabbits. The birds. They were so tuned in to the forces of nature that they escaped. They ran. Some of the elephants broke their chains and ran to the high level mountainous area where the tidal waves could not reach. We have lost that connection. Is there a way that we can collectively transcend to a level of consciousness where we see that the turbulence in our collective mind, possibly, is inseparable from the turbulence in nature? Because we are part of nature.

KING: Is it hard, Deepak Chopra, to stay up? In other words, is it hard to ground that feeling of good will when you see a tragedy like this?

CHOPRA: No, it in fact helps you ground that feeling of good will, Larry. You have to remember, as again, Rabbi Lerner said something very profound. The actual figure is 40,000 children are dying every day of preventable causes. 23 million people have died since World War I due to war and related violence. Right now there are 35 wars going on in our world. This is an opportunity for us to say, the cataclysmic events in nature are so big, but the inhumanity of man to man is even bigger. And can we learn from this, that at least there are certain things that we can do to make this a better world? What can we do? This is our opportunity to go beyond our religious differences because of what's happening. It brings out the essential goodness of man.

CALLER: The question is, do you have any advice as to the masses, exactly how to keep this a little more balanced?

KING: Good question.

CHOPRA: It's a very good question. You know, the idea here is that if we quiet the turbulence in our collective mind and heal the rift in our collective soul, could that have an effect on nature's mind, if nature has a mind? The gaia hypothesis says nature does have a mind, that the globe is conscious. So a critical mass of people praying or a critical mass of people collectively engaging in meditation could conceivably, even from modern physics point of view, through non-local interactions, actually simmer down the turbulence in nature. And there are precedents for this in all the religions. That when you pray, that you quieten your mind, that you go into deep silence, you change the way nature behaves. That it's not a cause/effect relationship; it's the inseparability of one consciousness that manifests itself in the diversity of creation.

KING: Deepak, do you doubt?

CHOPRA: No, Larry, I don't doubt. But I do feel sorry sometimes that we have allowed God to be hijacked by religious dogma. For example, right now on the show there aren't any women. You know, why is that? Every time we do a show on God, religion, it's always us males representing these different traditions. We need to realize that when we share our suffering, out of that comes compassion. And out of compassion comes love and understanding. And from that comes healing. As long as we stick to "my" version of God, we're going to have problems. I say that right on the show.

(As an aside, Chopra's comment about the absence of women led King to ask the other participants whether he was right and if there was a religious show on television the next night, would they expect to see a woman. The responses led King to suggest a program just on that issue.)

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Blissful mornings

kimberleechristian — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 03:06:32 GMT

Waking in bliss
Entangled in your body
Kissing your face
Watching you wake
Your eyes still closed
Smile forming on your lips
My heart beats faster
Hand on your chest
Energy flowing
From hand to heart
From heart to soul

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Contact Yoga Workshop 1/29... don't miss this one! Portland, OR

natashalivesly — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:15:48 GMT

Hi there!
My friend Takia is offering Portland an amazing workshop called CONTACT YOGA (AKA Partner Yoga or "acrobatic" Yoga). The date is Sat January 29th from 2-8pm. I have studied with Takia and recommend this class hands down... Learn to fly, balance, create magic in the air and on the ground. This is an all levels class, so give it a try. You do not need to bring a partner. The work will be deep and fun guaranteed! I will be there for sure! The Workshop will be at:

Yoga Pada--- SE Ankeny &6th (Portland, OR)
Sat January 29th 2-8 pm

Pre-registration will
save you $25. Cost is $50 pre-payed, $75 at the
door.

Call Takia at 707-396-2180 or E-mail contactyoga@yahoo.com to register.

I can forward you a copy of the flier if you wish for more specific info or feel free to call or e-mail. Thanks! Natasha

You may also contact Natasha livesly at: 503-260-8676
tabatosh@yahoo.com, Jen Slater at 503-484-5417, Mandy Kruger or Martina Oscarson at 503-282=6785

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Why Just Ask the Donkey?

shakti411 — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:14:35 GMT

Why Just Ask the Donkey?

Why
Just ask the donkey in me
To speak to the donkey in you.

When I have so many other beautiful animals
And brilliant colored birds inside
That are all longing to say something wonderful
And exciting to your heart?

Let's open all the locked doors upon our eyes
That keep us from knowing the Intelligence
That begets love
And a more lively and satisfying conversation
With the Friend.

Let's turn loose our golden falcons
So that they can meet in the sky
Where our spirits belong -
Necking like two
Hot kids.

Let's hold hands and get drunk near the sun
And sing sweet songs to the Goddess
Until She joins us with a few notes
From Her own sublime lute and drum

If you have a better idea
Of how to pass a lonely night
After your glands may have performed
All their little magic
Then speak up sweethearts, speak up,
For Hafiz and all the world will listen.

Why just bring your donkey to me
Asking for stale hay
And a boring conference with the idiot
In regards to this precious matter -
Such a precious matter as love,

When I have so many other divine animals
And brilliant colored birds inside
That are all longing
To so sweetly
Greet
You!

by Hafiz

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Transparency in Community

Blessica — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 04:39:16 GMT

Wow - I'm reeling from some information I just got about a person I dated briefly. I discovered yesterday that this person engaged in very large lies, betrayed agreements & potentially endangered me & others with his actions. I normally put a high value on maintaining connection with lovers, honoring all that I have been privileged to share with them regardless of how the relationship changes. I'm big on forgiveness, on benefit of the doubt, on holding space for mistakes & the evolution that often follows them... but I'm finding myself outraged & angry in an uncharacteristic way this time.

A big part of my anger is that this person is often in a leadership role in the community & presents himself as a spiritual teacher. He not only betrayed me personally, but did so in the name of all I hold sacred. I got involved with him in part because I respected his work within the tribe & now I am equally concerned about the trust that he is so easily given. I got over the love affair pretty quickly & was working on a friendship, but I now feel quite challenged given my fear that he will continue to misrepresent himself & thereby cause more harm.

What action is appropriate to take, if any? Do you think that the priveleges of participating in community are balanced by any responsibilities? Is transparency something we desire from each other? If you behave violently inside the community, do you expect to be held accountable? Or is something like this subjective & private? If you were about to get involved with this person - say, move in with them as a roommate - would you want me to give you any of the information I now have so you might avoid making the kind of mistakes I did?

I do not seek gossip or revenge (not that a few mad fantasies haven't gone through my head!) but I am deeply pondering right action...

All perspectives welcome - Jessica

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What is freedomcommunity

natashalivesly — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:17:53 GMT

Hi there!
Many of you throughout the past year have asked me many questions about my particular involvement with the concept of "freedomcommunity." I have written this is with hopes that I might be able to better clarify some of the distinctions and different aspects around freedomcommunity. I am 100% dedicated to this dream of community and to the direct action I see people taking place within the vision at this time. This is also only my perspective. And as many others involved with freedomcommunity would let you know (and I'm sure they will so speak up fc!) mine is only one look at a much larger picture. It can be difficult to define, but I am giving it a whirl.

First I thought I should let you know why I am writing this. It is largely because of you! My commitment on this earth is to connect amazing people with amazing people. I believe it is what I am here to do and I believe that the bigger picture it creates on this planet in one of unity within diversity, and a larger dream of peace and amazingness that I cannot even comprehend at the moment. I know this is the perspective I stand in and it colors much of the lenses I see the earth with as well and how I color my communication and expression. It is who I am. Knowing this about me might help you to understand more about my motivations and actions I choose in life.

Distinctions:

*freedomcommunity - the all encompassing ever-evolving umbrella concept (see my thoughts on t fc below this)

*Easy Freedom (tribe site) - An open informal place to network, connect, plan, play and create with all family associated or wanting to learn more about freedomcommunity (as a concept) on the Internet (as one choice of medium)

*freedomcommunity (sponsored tribe site) - An aspect of freedomcommunity for those that wish to have an intentional participatory experience of fc on the Internet (as one choice of medium). For those that wish to delve deeper into the lifestyle, creations, and planning of freedomcommunity as a concept in action. You must ask a member of this site to be sponsored to participate.

*Informal freedomcommunity events - Like TNF an opportunity to connect, play and explore the people and concept of freedomcommunity in an informal atmosphere.

*Formal freedomcommunity events - Very intentional gatherings that are created by a host who chooses a particular "game" to explore. Each event is distinct in content and intent but shares a common set of beliefs including but not limited to: anonymity, safety, and personal responsibility.
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~~freedomcommunity to me is an ever-evolving concept of expression of freedom in action. It is an umbrella that might shelter and link powerful people who share a common dream of living life to its fullest potential~~

~~And that potential is capable of being expanded by the mere belief in and support of a community of dreamers, visionaries, heroes, heroines, philanthropists, rock-stars, players, humble drifters, adventurers, teachers, students, whiskey drinkers, whores, priests and prophets~~

~~And it is a shared belief in integrity, love, play and personal responsibility. And that the word "shared" and "belief" also has some wiggling room to expand~~

~~And that the concept of freedomcommunity is immense because of its ability to expand and contract~~

~~And that it's immensity is exactly the fuel and fire needed to make great changes on this planet. And that this great expansion is possible because of our ability to contract into our own humanity. The humility and magnificence of being alive and sentient and vulnerable, and conscience and responsible for our own choices~~

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how long...

DeLovelyAdelle — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:41:30 GMT

How long does it take to realize your feelings for someone? I have this boyfriend, he and I have been together for six months now. Not a long time, but a good amount of time to get a realationship off the ground. He cannot tell me how he feels, all he says ( after I ask) is, " I like you." I just want him to open up to me, and share his feelings. How long should I wait, or should I just go, and save myself the heartache. It is not in my nature to quit, but am I just beating a dead horse here, or what?

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The privileged lovers

kimberleechristian — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:49:03 GMT

The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of love.
This dance of light,
This sacred blessing,
This divine love,
beckons us
to a world beyond
only lovers can see
with their eyes of fiery passion.
They are the chosen ones
who have surrendered.
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun.
They have left behind
the world of deceitful games.
They are the privileged lovers
who create a new world
with their eyes of fiery passion.

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love as more

kimberleechristian — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:49:31 GMT

I met someone, pulled a tarot card, and this is what I got. Oh, how true these words are. The best part is that I pull this card in any spread relating to this person.

"What we call love is really a whole spectrum of relating, reaching from the earth to the sky. At the most eartly level, love is sexual attraction. Many of us remain stuck there, because our conditioning has burdened our sexuality with all kinds of expectations and repression. Actually the biggest 'problem' with sexual love is that it never lasts. Only if we accept this fact can we really celebrate it for what it is-welcome its happening, and say good-bye with gratitude when it's not. Then as we mature, we can begin to experience the love that exists beyond sexuality and honors the unique individuality of the other. We begin to understand that our partner often functions as a mirror, reflecting unseen aspects of our deepest self and supporting us to become whole. This love is based in freedom, not expectation or need. Its wings will take us higher and higher towards the universal love that experiences all as one."

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a call to Artists...

pantherboy — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:11:05 GMT

Artists have freewill to amplify facts and invent fictions that illuminate the truth. Where are those with the courage and imagination to challenge a government/regime of brilliant fabulists at what is the artists' own game?

I believe sadness or anger can be constructive when it is expressed and released and purged with positive intentions.

Emotions flow into artistic expression and the release is powerfully effective. It's like a medicine or remedy to let such feelings fly into art...whether it is sad or happy or angry or melancholy or else.

The expression is creative...it is also purging > purging is releasing > and releasing is enlightening (lightening a load of heavy emotion) > and enlightening is free-ing

...perhaps that's why we've been labelled as 'liberals' ... because we express ourselves and we free ourselves and we have intentions of free-ing others while we do so ... 'liberal' = 'free'

Don't be ashamed of your feelings and don't be afraid to express yourself...don't be afraid of the Game...

Create for us...

with amorous intentions,

xo
lance

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the heart of the mind*

kalishakti2323 — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:12:01 GMT

Love. It is in the heart of the mind. moments of bliss await me.

I wish the same for all of human kind! May a day come soon when we can all embrace and rise above all ......especially in the light of where we are at now on earth..and not to mention the man who is .....Love truly does conquer all...may it always be this way. AUm shanti

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