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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Presence in all things]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[no  matter where you are no matter where you think you are no matter what you believe yourself to believe in matter in thought which is matter there is presence in all things the ever knowing You]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">no  matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">where you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter where you think you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter what you believe yourself to believe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in thought</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">which is matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">there is</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">presence</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">all things</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the ever knowing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Sky Clad]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/11/19/christopher-hansard-sky-clad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Sky clad the world in blue sky clad in ancient wonder what people see as the future is a memory of once what was &#160; made in the sky clad minds of our ancestors in the world before this world in the earth that gave birth to this earth]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">Sky clad</p>
<p align="center">the world</p>
<p align="center">in blue</p>
<p align="center">sky</p>
<p align="center">clad</p>
<p align="center">in</p>
<p align="center">ancient</p>
<p align="center">wonder</p>
<p align="center">what people see as the future</p>
<p align="center">is a memory</p>
<p align="center">of once</p>
<p align="center">what</p>
<p align="center">was</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">made in the sky clad minds of our ancestors</p>
<p align="center">in the world</p>
<p align="center">before this world</p>
<p align="center">in the earth</p>
<p align="center">that gave birth to this earth</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Minuet on Credit]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 &#160; Benjamin Franklin would have been refused credit so would Plato too, Socrates, Wagner and Schiller Mahler, most certainly Mozart unacceptable credit risks St Francis having no real assets would be dismissed George Washington Marqui de Sade or Rocheford, Duke of Wellington, Napoleon too, Balachine, Gorky Kafka Credit belongs to those whose heaven is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"> 1</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">Benjamin Franklin would have been refused credit</p>
<p align="center">so would Plato too,</p>
<p align="center">Socrates, Wagner and Schiller</p>
<p align="center">Mahler, most certainly Mozart</p>
<p align="center">unacceptable credit risks</p>
<p align="center">St Francis having no real assets</p>
<p align="center">would be dismissed</p>
<p align="center">George Washington</p>
<p align="center">Marqui de Sade or Rocheford,</p>
<p align="center">Duke of Wellington, Napoleon</p>
<p align="center">too,</p>
<p align="center">Balachine, Gorky</p>
<p align="center">Kafka</p>
<p align="center">Credit</p>
<p align="center">belongs</p>
<p align="center">to</p>
<p align="center">those</p>
<p align="center">whose heaven is on earth</p>
<p align="center">covered up by concrete</p>
<p align="center">cemented by debt</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">2</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">anger is the most communicable disease</p>
<p align="center">of the politically correct community</p>
<p align="center">if you want to be truly authentic</p>
<p align="center">know where your anger</p>
<p align="center">arises from.</p>
<p align="center">heal it and move on</p>
<p align="center">know where your greed arises from</p>
<p align="center">heal it and move on</p>
<p align="center">know where your lust in all its forms arises from</p>
<p align="center">heal it and move on</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">3</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">my time here is over</p>
<p align="center">i have moved on</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">4</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">karma is intentional action, thought and deed</p>
<p align="center">free yourself from ignorance to understand full intention</p>
<p align="center">love all things</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">5</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">look into the noise of life</p>
<p align="center">and hear the silence</p>
<p align="center">the music</p>
<p align="center">the light</p>
<p align="center">the rushing of</p>
<p align="center">the Way</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Kindness]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kindness that you seek in others can be found within yourself the kindness that you are afraid of receiving will wait until you are ready to receive it waiting close by like a fathful friend there is kindness everywhere if only you stop to see kindness is the source of community and of healing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">The kindness that you seek in others</p>
<p align="center">can be found within yourself</p>
<p align="center">the kindness that you are afraid of receiving</p>
<p align="center">will wait until you are ready to receive it</p>
<p align="center">waiting close by like a fathful friend</p>
<p align="center">there is kindness everywhere</p>
<p align="center">if only you stop to see</p>
<p align="center">kindness is the source of community</p>
<p align="center">and of healing and understanding</p>
<p align="center">if you seek wisdom, knowledge, spirituuality</p>
<p align="center">first develop kindness</p>
<p align="center">and you will find all other things accrue naturally</p>
<p align="center">kindness needs nothing but itself</p>
<p align="center">and is everywhere waiting to shared</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Reflections through Human Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 1 Take A Walk Across the Land Take a walk across the land, or down the street, extend your hands, feel the human pulse in all that is there step back do you feel fear? Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make the landscapes in your mind, through the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> 1</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>Take  A Walk Across the Land</em> </strong></p>
<p align="center">Take a walk across the land,</p>
<p align="center">or down the street, extend your hands,</p>
<p align="center">feel the human pulse in all that is there</p>
<p align="center">step back do you feel fear?</p>
<p align="center">Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make</p>
<p align="center"> the landscapes in your mind, through the crowded market place of emotions</p>
<p align="center">and through the long rememberings of the longing heart,</p>
<p align="center">extend you hands</p>
<p align="center"> ..feel the human pulse in all that is there&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"> do you feel love?</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">2</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>The Sound of a Single Note<br />
</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">Each of us remains too frightened in our daily lives,</p>
<p align="center">I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,</p>
<p align="center">the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</p>
<p align="center">there are harmonic rhapsodies in the faces of love and fear,</p>
<p align="center">call to them,</p>
<p align="center">like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn</p>
<p align="center"> or the Snake Charmer of Lucknapoor ,</p>
<p align="center">they will come scuttling to the tune,</p>
<p align="center">fear comes like a horde of rats</p>
<p align="center"> because fear is stronger in a crowd and more curious,</p>
<p align="center">love will come willingly for love is willing</p>
<p align="center">and not because the piper calls but that</p>
<p align="center"> love knows that piper in order to heard needs to be followed</p>
<p align="center">until the day that the piper casts the pipe away</p>
<p align="center">Love and fear harmonic interplay</p>
<p align="center">you can travel world on a single note</p>
<p align="center">from future to the past and</p>
<p align="center">the illusion of now</p>
<p align="center">extend your hands and feel the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">3</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>The Finder is Not the Knower </em></strong></p>
<p align="center">we are born to meander through the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">in search of meaning and the celebration of our Self</p>
<p align="center">If you seek to look for God or the answers to your life</p>
<p align="center">stop and feel the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">for all the names of God are found</p>
<p align="center">in the human  world in the beating heart and it essence</p>
<p align="center">if you seek to be comforted, the comfort that is</p>
<p align="center"> within is to be reflected in the creation of friendship</p>
<p align="center">if you seek for answers to your life then stop to know</p>
<p align="center">the way of how you love and why you do</p>
<p align="center"> then give it up and you</p>
<p align="center">will find the truth</p>
<p align="center">whatever you may search for will be found</p>
<p align="center">but on finding it then you must understand</p>
<p align="center">understanding is the discoverer and explorer too</p>
<p align="center">been the finder is not the knower</p>
<p align="center">You may find God, You may find Meaning</p>
<p align="center">You may find Love, You may find fame</p>
<p align="center">Finding is not the Knowing</p>
<p align="center">to know we must give up what we have found</p>
<p align="center">to understand we must give up meaning</p>
<p align="center">to have meaning we must give up all our prejudice</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">4</p>
<p align="center"><em><strong>Unknown </strong></em></p>
<p align="center">In the world and in our heart there is the</p>
<p align="center">divine, unknown, we seek to find  a way to love</p>
<p align="center">which will lead to us been known.</p>
<p align="center">but all things return to the unknown</p>
<p align="center">and the emergent</p>
<p align="center">when you feel alone and lonely</p>
<p align="center">separate and unknown</p>
<p align="center">pause and offer up these states of being</p>
<p align="center">as imperfect prayers to the unknown</p>
<p align="center">and you will find that the</p>
<p align="center">Cosmos and its Descent</p>
<p align="center">will be falling within and up</p>
<p align="center">bathing you in the Unknown</p>
<p align="center">We are the Unknown</p>
<p align="center">the lonely and the content</p>
<p align="center">we are the journey and the last coin spent</p>
<p align="center">we are the meaning and dreaming</p>
<p align="center">and the reflections through human experience</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center"> 5</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em> What We Have Now is Also This</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">All is offering and acceptance</p>
<p align="center">seeking its own delight</p>
<p align="center">all our bitterness is a call for this</p>
<p align="center">all our love and suffering too</p>
<p align="center">what we have now is also this</p>
<p align="center">what we seek is in the seeking</p>
<p align="center">we fall in love with ourselves</p>
<p align="center">this is what we seek</p>
<p align="center">what we have now in the essence of our being</p>
<p align="center">is what we had in the first impulse of our coming into being</p>
<p align="center">we are reflections through human experience</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center"> 6</p>
<p align="center"><em><strong>With a Single Constant Breath Make Ourselves Again<br />
</strong></em></p>
<p align="center">Give up the patterns of your thoughts</p>
<p align="center">the past, wherefores and whys</p>
<p align="center">go beyond comparisons</p>
<p align="center">beyond truth and lies</p>
<p align="center">through the furnace of awakening</p>
<p align="center">through the glamour of illusion</p>
<p align="center">go beyond to</p>
<p align="center">the one unspoken word</p>
<p align="center">there is no this or that</p>
<p align="center">there is no us or them</p>
<p align="center">there is no good or bad</p>
<p align="center">for the Cosmos and its Descent</p>
<p align="center">only moves to find its way</p>
<p align="center">a sunset and sunrise</p>
<p align="center">a moonset and moonrise</p>
<p align="center">fleeting light on fleeting lives</p>
<p align="center">starlight, lovelight, carlights</p>
<p align="center">there is</p>
<p align="center">Awake and be kind to your heart</p>
<p align="center">look out around you</p>
<p align="center">to the mind field, that pattern which you call your life</p>
<p align="center">there the mind field is a vast skein of light</p>
<p align="center">harmonic interludes that create day, birth, night, death</p>
<p align="center">and eternity</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">when the world is at last, swept away ,we will gather up the dust</p>
<p align="center">and with a single constant breath</p>
<p align="center">make our selves again in the image of our being</p>
<p align="center">our creation will be</p>
<p align="center">reflections through human and divine experience</p>
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		<title>The Four Fists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Fist is held high and states aloud, &#8220;If you enter into my territory I will defend myself and the consequence will be yours!&#8217; This fist defends territory and the consequences engulf everyone. Territory eventually falls. Boundaries and borders may change but still keep their resilience. The Second First is held high and states [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The First Fist is held high and states aloud, &#8220;If you enter into my territory I will defend myself and the consequence will be yours!&#8217;</p>
<p>This fist defends territory and the consequences engulf everyone. Territory eventually falls. Boundaries and borders may change but still keep their resilience.</p>
<p>The Second First is held high and states aloud, &#8221; If you do not give me what I regard as mine I will take it from you!&#8217;</p>
<p>This fist is afraid and has no trust of the world.</p>
<p>This fist is afraid of aggression but is driven by what it fears most.</p>
<p>The Third Fist is held high and states aloud, &#8221; If you try to take from others or from me I will use all reasonable force to protect my interests and those who I protect.&#8221;</p>
<p>This fist believes in the politics of the protector to get what is wants.</p>
<p>All of these three fists believe they are fair, just and compassionate. But all of exact huge costs, people, culture and environment, the present and the future are all altered.</p>
<p>The Fourth Fist is held high and states aloud , &#8221; Look..my fist is unfolding to be a gesture of peace and friendship, join me.&#8221;</p>
<p>This fist seeks nothing but unity and cooperation.</p>
<p>It is stronger than the other three but has less attraction, for peace has no glamour or conquest, other than love for all that you fear the most and all that invades and seeks to change what you regard as yours.</p>
<p>Look at the World today, where do you see these four fists being held high?</p>
<p>Banners of human flesh on a strong and forceful wind.</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Karma, Rebirth and Reincarnation]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma? Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma?</p>
<p>Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond measurement, we all are linked in a karmic fish net, that trawls the bottom of our unconscious karmic ocean.</p>
<p>If we wish to change patterns in our life, we need to understand what prompts our thoughts, actions, words and gestures, and what are the drives behind our intentions and focus. We can change karmic patterns by changing the nature of our intentions to the world, our inner world, outer world and to all people and other living creatures.</p>
<p>People often wonder &#8230;what  is Rebirth, thinking it the same as Reincarnation.</p>
<p>Rebirth is the process of suddenly been born as soon as you are dead without any understanding or control over the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of dying. If you lived a confused life and died with confusion, fear or any other overwhelming emotion that caused you to feel trapped,then it can be that you will be born immediately, as there are endless wombs waiting to be filled with life.</p>
<p>Rebirth is sudden and without understanding, it is a rush an endless flow and pattern. But you can rise out of that pattern by learning how to become conscious and more aware of your inner state so it does not sabotage your mental state as you die. This leads us to Reincarnation.</p>
<p>People often wonder&#8230; what Reincarnation is&#8230;</p>
<p>Reincarnation is the conscious application of mental , emotional and spiritual insight to yourself as you die, thus clearing away all the inner fears and projections that emanate around you as you die. You create a choice within you as to how you shall be, you enter into a dimension of choices. And when you know it is right, you have an element of choice over how, when and to whom you will be born.</p>
<p>In the death process if you enter into the state of clarity, you can redeem yourself, heal all your regrets, learn as to the whys and hows of your karmic legacy and inheritance and transform yourself.</p>
<p>Death is the great equalizer but in that you have choice and intention and focus.   Whatever you have done, you can heal in the process of death, and stay in the dimensions between the former life and the possibility of a new one, to enhance your inner evolution and well being.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Bliss and Boredom]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bliss and Boredom, silence and noise,</p>
<p>calm and rush, silence and noise, clamour and quietude, dark and light,</p>
<p>to have and not to have,</p>
<p>these are the questions that are asked deep within our everyday selves and we are not normally conscious of the asking. Until, one, some or all of them come rushing out in a surprise guerilla assault of our fragile sense of self. These fuel most people&#8217;s search for meaning, comfort and stability.</p>
<p>But they are heat waves that come from the energy our everyday mind when it tries to make sense of our lives, selves and the world.</p>
<p>To move beyond becoming influenced by the rise and fall of all of these, we need to understand that we can let go of trying to make sense of it, and allow the natural sense to make sense of us.</p>
<p>Yes, we need to let go of the searching when fueled by all of these things that I have listed and allow the natural sense within us to show us that there is no search.</p>
<p>Because  you are the  journey and the destination and you have already arrived, it is just, that at some point in your journey through Life, you forgot. Its like meeting someone from years ago, and you can&#8217;t quite place their face or name, but you know that you know them from somewhere.</p>
<p>The natural sense within can show you that beneath the thrum of all of these experiences that I mentioned earlier is a great simplicity, and it is constant and yet as you experience it, it is renewed and so are you.</p>
<p>There will be no more bliss or boredom, but contentment and a knowing of the great laugh that resounds in the universe, and you will taste joy in everything and everyone.</p>
<p>Beyond Bliss, beyond boredom, you will find yourself and like a long lost lover rush to embrace yourself in the experience of the ever constant divine.</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Are You Happy?]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you happy?</p>
<p>Can you ask yourself and find an answer?</p>
<p>There is no quick answer, only a slow one that evolves as you experience your evolution through the challenges of life .</p>
<p>Happiness comes and goes, but its sweetness is a reminder, that beneath the delights of happiness exists a greater joy and contentment that shows  us all, the &#8216;being&#8217; , within the human..</p>
<p>Happiness improves our health and conscious, but the media has hijacked it, turning it into something &#8216;aspirational&#8217; like a fashion item or latest gizmo, happiness is for us to see beyond ourselves and to be thankful for the life we can make from the life we have.</p>
<p>Happiness is also a choice, both a belief, as an act of faith and a psychological state that shifts our consciousness.</p>
<p>How do we find happiness?</p>
<p>We need to look within for that is where its foundation lies,</p>
<p>and without, not in things, but in our relationships to people,</p>
<p>the natural world and the place we stand in,</p>
<p>as we express who we think we are.</p>
<p>Happiness is trust, a trust in the goodness of life, people and ones Self.</p>
<p>If you can not trust in these, then happiness takes time to emerge into your daily activities and thinking.</p>
<p>Happiness is waiting for you to claim it as your own.</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Gentleness; when we listen to the interdependence within ourselves]</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gentleness is the expression of interdependence and of the person who is unafraid of the connection with the varied experiences of Life. In a world where people are born unequal, gentleness has a greater impact than the biggest fanfare. Gentleness is the opportunity of communication and is the first step in true intimacy, of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gentleness is the expression of interdependence</p>
<p>and of the person who is unafraid of the connection</p>
<p>with the varied experiences of Life.<span id="more-52"></span></p>
<p>In a world where people are born unequal,</p>
<p>gentleness has a greater impact than the biggest fanfare.</p>
<p>Gentleness  is the opportunity of communication</p>
<p>and is the first step in true intimacy,</p>
<p>of the self, of your inner consciousness and with another.</p>
<p>Gentleness comes about when we listen to the interdependence within ourselves.</p>
<p>When we take the vow of the sacred marriage</p>
<p>between the dark and the light that rumbles through our everyday mind.</p>
<p>When we give up dogma, prejudice and set ideas,</p>
<p>burn away habits back to their original inspiration,</p>
<p>gentleness waits to be experienced.</p>
<p>Gentleness will come when invited.</p>
<p>It is not cautious but has spiritual courtesy.</p>
<p>If you want to experience gentleness</p>
<p>do not be afraid of the love that is revealed</p>
<p>to you in the experience of gentleness.</p>
<p>When the world goes mad and rowdy,</p>
<p>when people became overblown and pollute the world with their lack of care,</p>
<p>when hope seems to evaporate,</p>
<p>gentleness will still be with you.</p>
<p>Gentleness overcomes all things.</p>
<p>It creates renewal and rejuvenation of the heart.</p>
<p>To become gentle and to accept it with you</p>
<p>awakens the impulse within you to embrace  all things with out fear.</p>
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