Let us unite!
A common resolve.
Join in whatever way you are confortable with.
Think good thoughts…
Meditate…
Pray…
Play a tune…
Whatever means of uniting in the common resolve your convictions permit…
But let us join together in the hope that needless devastation will not come.
Let us join in the hope that bigotry, whether directed at Iraqis or at Americans, whether aimed at Europeans or at Israelis, whether aimed at “conservatives” or “liberals,” doesn’t increase.
Let us work, not toward trying to make one another look bad, but toward peace one with another, regardless of how international tensions are developing.
Amen, Walden!
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Cranberry, your quote made me laugh! Thanks for the giggle, I’ll keep that with me today.
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Bravo Walden! Bravo!
Thank you Walden, for showing us the still point of compassion and reason in a chaotic world.
–Jay
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“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”
T.S.Eliot
Jeez, Eliot sounds like a Hindu. Is he talking about God?
I thought he was a Christian.
Thanks, Walden, old buddy!
Well said Walden!
Namasté - “I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides, I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.” Namasté
jim
Yes, Walden.
Walden - the voice of reason. Thank you, Walden.
sigh
Might as well - it looks like hope is all that’s left.
No way! unity and hope are TOTALLY OVER RATED! that which does not kill us makes us stronger! we should alienate everyone and everything!
Come on, you know I’m kidding. 
Thanks for the post Walden.
( Don’t act like I just dropped road kill on your doorstep when I check in at the chat room.)
Also Aaron
sigh Everything is turning black… But things, I hope, will eventually get better…
Yes ~ I certainly think it is time for unity. Thanks, Walden!
Betty
Eliot’s Christianity was part and parcel of his Anglophilia. I think he viewed Hindu mythology as true in some psychological sense (as did Joseph Campbell more recently). At the end of “The Wasteland” Eliot even has the thunder speaking Sanskrit: “Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih”
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One cannot.
Thanks, riseard–wonderful stuff.
Bloomey, Cranberry, let’s compromise.
You can and you cannot be both a Hindu and
a Christian. Best
Or, as a politician might put it, “Moi je ne suis ni pour ni contre. Bien au contraire.”