welcome, well come to this moment of eternity where we will continue going a little deeper into Peace Pilgrim’s 4 Relinquishments with tonight’s focus on her second surrender or softening…

“The second relinquishment is the relinquishment of the feeling of separateness. We begin feeling very separate and judging everything as it relates to us, as though we were the center of the universe. Even after we know better intellectually, we still judge things that way. In reality, of course, we are all cells in the body of humanity. We are not separate from our fellow humans. The whole thing is a totality. It’s only from that higher viewpoint that you can know what it is to love your neighbor as yourself. From that higher viewpoint there becomes just one realistic way to work, and that is for the good of the whole. As long as you work for your selfish little self, you’re just one cell against all those other cells, and you’re way out of harmony. But as soon as you begin working for the good of the whole, you find yourself in harmony with all of your fellow human beings. You see, it’s the easy, harmonious way to live.“

ah yes, everyONE, let’s take this moment of eternity to conspire, to breathe together, to feel the one body we are breathing us, each cell of the one body animating and opening to this moment of interbeing in devocean in the vast skysea of rainbow mystery… in the center of the tao, the medicine wheel, the stillpoint we experience true reality. true nature, a beautiful place to explore and inhabit more and more deeply and expansively…

from this sacred space, let’s recite the shabad that re-weaves the world for our 14th day… in joy let’s rest in open presence this moment, every moment…

“When the earth is in distress, it attunes itself with love and sends out a prayer.

The True One hears it, and with total ease is pleased to give Its strength and steadiness.

It sends a command to the Power of Rain, and the rain pours down in torrents.

The wealth of grain and corn grows thick.

A person cannot describe its value.

Oh Naanak, appreciate the Divine Identity.

You, Divine One, cause the life-giving food to be given to all the creatures.

Eating this, peace grows, and the cycle of pain comes no more.”