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May 26 2010 - Excerpts from A Letter to A Friend
And I want to start with what you ended with...yes indeed we need to ask G-d to bless us and those that we care about and even those that we know may not care as we do, and thus need G-d's blessing even more. And as you seem to agree, G-d awaits our requests for blessings eagerly. And he is eager to oblige, but I think, only if we are eager to live in the light he creates for us.
....... his words were poignant in a tremendous way. And his main concern was the need for man to embrace the sentiment of forgiveness as the most important gesture we can embody. And why? Because it is the most disarming sentiment of all. And in a world of violence and commotion and cancer and famine, we need a disarming sentiment to have the ultimate in utopian existence. One of pure peace and understanding. And the concept that has been thrust at us most in an attempt to temper the world has been "tolerance." Unfortunately, this just throws us back to the dark ages. The word tolerance implies that we are putting up with something we don't appreciate and are reluctant to embrace. On the contrary, it is the two concepts of forgiveness and embracing one another's differences that will save the world from its self.
And I don't think that a reform movement would be possible anyway. But enlightenment? Isn't that where we are? At the crossroads for mankind.....either doomed to a hell on earth, which is dynamically manifesting itself with the oil spill - our human decadence's reward or......blessed with an age of enlightenment.
We lead a very precarious existence here on Earth and most of us take everything with which we are blessed for granted. And if we are to create an ideal and harmonious existence we must start with our momentous march toward enlightenment by forgiving and embracing one another whole - heart - edly.
April 16, 2010
Something I realized and am wondering why it was not spoken of more is that the first Woodstock festival took place in Bethel, NY which was where, in the book of Genisis of The Bible, Jacob, when his mother, Rebekah, told him he should leave Canaan after he steals Esau's blessing, stops to rest, and sleeps using a stone for a pillow. In his dreams he sees a ladder to heaven at that place, Bethel, and thus declares the place as the gates of heaven. Music is a universal language of peace and how appropriate that such a profound moment in the history of peaceful gatherings, focused on music, would take place at a location named Bethel.
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