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Love in This World and the Other:
Walking a Path with Heart
Theme: Love and Forgiveness
JUNE 12-14, 2009
Francis Weller with Doug von Koss and Richard Palmer
Ojai, California
For more information and registration,
contact Craig Roche at oceansoul7@hotmail.com
This year we celebrate our third annual gathering
> with the theme of Love and Forgiveness. Join ritual
> artist Doug von Koss, psychotherapist, soul activist
> Francis Weller, and community activist, poet Richard
> Palmer in this special gathering focused on the
> mysteries of forgiveness.
>
>
>
> "Love," the poet Rilke says, "is a great inducement
> to ripen." A mature love, one that has been
> seasoned, recognizes a simple truth: intimacy is
> wounding. To open to love is to know loss, betrayal,
> disappointment and pain. The great call and response
> between humans must inevitably include the exchange
> of hurt and forgiveness. Coming to this is neither
> easy nor certain.
>
>
>
> Once again we will be gathering in the spring of the
> year to meet in circle, to sing, share ritual space
> and find ourselves in the well of things as they
> are. This year we are holding the tension between
> love and forgiveness. We will explore the many
> layers of this practice and see where it leads us
> during our time together. We will touch upon
> forgiveness of self, of others and the seeking of
> forgiveness.
>
>
>
> We often harden our hearts to ourselves, filled with
> judgment, contempt, at times deepening into
> self-hatred. We become intolerant of our
> imperfection, blaming ourselves for a perceived
> threat of exile. How do we find our way back to
> kindness, mercy and forgiveness? How do we make
> amends to the least of our brothers and sisters
> inside of us? Healing it seems, often begins in
> forgiveness, a letting go of bitterness and
> harshness. Such a gesture may in fact open us once
> again to the free movement of love in our life.
>
>
>
> And how do we forgive the grievances we hold for
> others, those who have wronged us? Is it possible to
> remove the barriers we build, the fortresses of
> protection to ensure we are never hurt again? And
> further, how do we seek the forgiveness of others
> whom we have harmed through our carelessness,
> selfishness or neglect?
>
>
>
> This third gathering of men devoted to the heart,
> raises many questions. Please join us as we hold
> these concerns and seek to find our way to the
> farther shore of forgiveness.
> with the theme of Love and Forgiveness. Join ritual
> artist Doug von Koss, psychotherapist, soul activist
> Francis Weller, and community activist, poet Richard
> Palmer in this special gathering focused on the
> mysteries of forgiveness.
>
>
>
> "Love," the poet Rilke says, "is a great inducement
> to ripen." A mature love, one that has been
> seasoned, recognizes a simple truth: intimacy is
> wounding. To open to love is to know loss, betrayal,
> disappointment and pain. The great call and response
> between humans must inevitably include the exchange
> of hurt and forgiveness. Coming to this is neither
> easy nor certain.
>
>
>
> Once again we will be gathering in the spring of the
> year to meet in circle, to sing, share ritual space
> and find ourselves in the well of things as they
> are. This year we are holding the tension between
> love and forgiveness. We will explore the many
> layers of this practice and see where it leads us
> during our time together. We will touch upon
> forgiveness of self, of others and the seeking of
> forgiveness.
>
>
>
> We often harden our hearts to ourselves, filled with
> judgment, contempt, at times deepening into
> self-hatred. We become intolerant of our
> imperfection, blaming ourselves for a perceived
> threat of exile. How do we find our way back to
> kindness, mercy and forgiveness? How do we make
> amends to the least of our brothers and sisters
> inside of us? Healing it seems, often begins in
> forgiveness, a letting go of bitterness and
> harshness. Such a gesture may in fact open us once
> again to the free movement of love in our life.
>
>
>
> And how do we forgive the grievances we hold for
> others, those who have wronged us? Is it possible to
> remove the barriers we build, the fortresses of
> protection to ensure we are never hurt again? And
> further, how do we seek the forgiveness of others
> whom we have harmed through our carelessness,
> selfishness or neglect?
>
>
>
> This third gathering of men devoted to the heart,
> raises many questions. Please join us as we hold
> these concerns and seek to find our way to the
> farther shore of forgiveness.
