"It may change, but I am now clueless about fear of death.
I used to 'get it.' I totally don't 'get it' any more. Oh, I desperately want to be here to help, as long as I can help! But fearing death? I just don't get it. When the time is up, it is up! What's to fear? Twice last week cars almost took my life. My pulse didn't rise a beat then, or now. This is not about being careless or reckless. I'm sure it has to do with living on the battlefield, ALWAYS, for a Mission worth more than one's life.
I find this quite amazing, and I can barely remember my old way, of fear." SL
"The sole purpose of my body and my blood is to feed Universal Love. That's the only reason any of us are here, as much as we insist on imagining otherwise; or King, Gandhi, Tolstoy, Jesus... are wrong, and they are not wrong." SL
If there had been the equivalent of Thomas Frank's book, in 1930 Germany, EXACTLY 80 YEARS AGO, AND IF IT HAD BEEN READ, AND TAKEN TO HEART,you and I would not know the name Hitler, or the words THIRD REICH.
But if there was such a book, IT WAS NOT TAKEN HEART, and the rest is history.
WE ARE 1930 GERMANY, 80 YEARS LATER - TODAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The following I've just put up, with more to follow. THEY ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE for the book. GET IT. READ IT. SHARE IT. SEND OUT COPIES.
But in the hours before you get and read the book, these might help:
The President discusses his blueprint for an updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act to overhaul No Child Left Behind, the latest step from his Administration to encourage change and success in Americas schools at the local level.
While we snipe at and pillory this great man, this brother TO us, HE REFUSES TO BE DIVERTED FROM DEVOTION TO OUR LIVES.
"I'm learning to maniacally stay out of others' business so that I can more fully mind my own.
I am NOT responsible for what ANYONE ELSE DOES, EVER. BUT I AM TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT I DO, ALWAYS, EVERY SECOND; and if find that minding my own business RESPONSIBLY takes every second of my time and every ounce of my energy, to do so well.
I know this is central to why I can be sooooooo difficult to deal with. Sorry." SL