<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Sarah H. Buss" <<a href="mailto:shbuss@icloud.com">shbuss@icloud.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Oe List ...] Some thoughts about the future</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">June 26, 2013 7:52:01 AM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>, <br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>, "Sarah H. Buss" <<a href="mailto:shbuss@mac.com">shbuss@mac.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div>This part of "aging community" can barely keep up with the emails, but I do want to stay connected. I look for the emails that go deep, especially to spirit. In that regard, the two that express where I am these days are:<br>Richard Rohr (Immortal Diamond), a Franciscan priest,and<br>Adyashanti (The Way of Liberation) Zen trained but goes way beyond .<br>To me they both speak the same language and transcend it all and are universal and go deep but simple.<br>Thankfully that is about as long an email as I can manage, but mid morning phone usually finds me at home.<br>Gratitude for wisdom you share,<br>Sarah<br><br>Sent from my iPad<br><br>On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:32 AM, Ken Fisher <<a href="mailto:hkf232@gmail.com">hkf232@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Well stated, Tim.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ken<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 2013-06-25, at 10:56 PM, Timothy Wegner wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Susan wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the distinction between OE and Dialogue, I dropped out of Dialogue because it seemed very political in a monolithic, partisan, groupthink kind <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">way and often unrelated (in my opinion) to meaningful discussion of EI/ICA/the spirit movement.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Whether someone agrees with your critique or not, they can likely agree that there is a lot of political discussion in dialogue, along with a lot of other discussion. The group evolves as people participate or chose to leave, depending on how useful they find it. The lists are both complex, and are used in many ways. Gems turn up in both lists.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am glad that what you find on OE meets your needs. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I sort both lists into their respective folders, and read what interests me in both. Ability to search is wonderful.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have long ago given up wishing either list be other than it is. They are both ephemeral manifestations of our ephemeral community.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tim<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">OE mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">OE mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>