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1 *Day 0*
2
3 I had missed the 'rule' part!
4 Wrt what would I be willing to be held to account?
5 What kind of intentional community might be situated within a Quaker
6 meeting?
7
8 Alex Wildwood:
9 Connection: participation/communion/community
10 Reflection/meditation/contemplation: Stilling the monkey mind;
11 self-enquiry: what are we led to do
12 Service: Action of love [12 step]; work, creativity and caring;
13 aliveness is relational
14 Serving the great works of justice, peace and love
15
16 Aka connection/consciousness/compassion
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18 Power and presence that is greater than us
19
20 Ego, seeking self-validation. "I don't like change"
21
22 ---------
23
24 Ben PD:
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26 "A succession of very unhappy people, nothing to do with me" !
27 ??? hedonism.
28
29 Faithfulness: What does it feel like to be faithful, how do I know
30 what is an authentic spiritual impetus?
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32 Keep practicing a life as ministry; Remember the principle of Act as If.
33
34 Look for a feeling, and look at the fruits.
35
36 Holy moments, right place/right time, a _thin_ place
37
38 Good questions to ask about authentic decision making
39
40 Amish decision: does this build community?
41
42 Ever vigilant, and recognise the need for help.
43
44 *Day 1*
45 ----------
46
47 Be prepared to wait. Sometimes one has to just get out of the way.
48
49 G. MacLeod: "I don't believe in coincidences, but when I stop praying
50 they stop happening".
51
52 "Fold the wings of the intellect"
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54 "God is reached by love, not navigation" Augustine
55
56 ----------------
57
58 But sometimes pain is just painful...
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60 "There is a power and presence by which we live" _The_ Quaker
61 testimony, per Jocelyn Burnell, allegedly
62
63 curl -o ewa ftpes://hsthompson:eebaephai4Ae@resources.elda.org/
64
65 -------------Rules----------
66
67 What is the aim of the spiritual life: to realise the full potential
68 of my humanity.
69
70 Noticing how we sabotage our best intentions
71
72 *Day 2*
73
74 ----------Rule for me-------
75
76 Substantive, realistic, ministry
77
78 [use positive language]
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80 How without a community?
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82 If I'm not keeping a rule maybe _it_ needs to change
83
84 Don't set oneself up to fail "I have not gone after things to great,
85 or marvels beyond me".
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87 QF&P/A&Q as a rule: how to make it more personal [substantive,
88 realistic, ministry]
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90 What's already underway w/o problems may not need to be in there...
91
92 Be careful about inviting ways to work around bits
93
94 Use the stairs as a physical cue, morning and evening, to set the
95 day's goals; to acknowledge the goods/fallings short.
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97 Thich Nhat Hanh puts value on 'solidity': that resonates, but what
98 _is_ it?
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100 St. Francis: "[E]liminate the ways we may manipulate others to ur own
101 ends."
102
103 I'm going to write this without assuming that I'm ready to adopt it,
104 call it...
105
106 [See A_Guide_for_Living.{txt,xml}]