ERIC BUTTERWORTH PAPERS (3014)
BOX 25 FOLDER 66
RX FOR A DECADE OF
PEACE
DECEMBER 31,1989
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! jEACH WE OF US WILL VOICE THAT SALUTATION //I HUNDREDS OF TIMES IN THE NEXT TWELVE HOURS.^/wHAT IS IT THAT MAKES A NEW YEAR NEW? / WHAT/s A YEAR? J WHAT IF THERE WERE NO CALENDAR?/	1
NO DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS? /HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT-OUT THAT? * Arn WE TALK ABOUT BEING A YEAR OLDER, j WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? /iF YOU DIDN'T KNOW HOW "OLD" YOU WERE,/WOULD YOU REMAIN YOUNG? /WE SAY "TIME MARCHES ON'S /BUT DOES TIMEMARCH? / WHAT IS TIME?
[OUSPE'NSKY] IN HIS "NFW MODFI OF THF IINIVFRSF" SAYS: /tHE WORLD :	IS	A	WORLD	OF INFINITE POSSIBILITIES ,/AND ALL OF THEM ARE ACTUALIZED,
ONLY WE DO NCf SEE IT AND DO NOT KNOW IT,/ WE ALWAYS SEE ONLY 0 ONE OF THE ACTUALIZATIONS,/AND IN THIS LIE5 THE POVERTY AND
LIMITATION OF THE HUMAN MIND./TIME IS NOT A PASSING PHENOMENON,/
' BUT AN UNFOLDMENT OF THE INFINITECPOSSIBILITIES/OF AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE." "
^EAR IS TOO MUCH FOR THE HUMAN MIND TO COMPREHEND./ IT IS LIKE TRYING TO COMPREHEND A TRILUO^IOLLARS. / IT IS TOO MUCHj/bUT WE CAhjfcOMPREHEND A DOLLAR... AND A_DAY. ft(*f $«***&ft- *$ W'
A DAY IS THE EXPERIENCE THAT IS FRAMEl/BETWEEN WAKING UP IN THE MORftNINt/ AND DROPPING OFF TO SLEEP AT NIGHT./ IT IS "NEW" ONLY TO THE EXTENT/
THAT WITH NEW VIGOR AND FRESH ENTHUSIASf/VlE CAN LAUNCH INTO THE ACTIVITY OF LIVING./ THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS DAY AND YESTERDAY/lS A STATE OF MIND. /TODAY I MAY FEEJl GOOD,/sO THIS IS A GOOD DAyJ PERHAPS YESTERDAY I WAS DEPRESSED,/sO IT WAS A TERRIBLE DAY.
A NEW DAY IS A FRESH OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE/lN THE FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE CONSTANT. IT IS ALMOST AS IF WE,"ARE MOVING IN A SPIRAL. 7 — WE CONTINUE TO GO OVER THE SAME GROUND,/BUT EACH TIME ON A HIGHER	^
level/, .thus _a new day, /and WHAT IS a year/but AN EVEN LARGER SPIRAL
OF THE NOW? /an OLD YEAR DOES NOT REALLY COME TO AN END,/NOR DOES A NEW YEAR ACTUALLY BEGIN. / A YEAR IS A CONVENIENT DEVICE FOR KEEPING
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TRACK OF THINGS HISTORICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY,/AND IT IS AN AMAZINGLY fJOfP**'DEVICE FOR SELF-EVALUATION. /bUT A YEARNS NOT A THING./, AND 1990
MOST CERTAINLY WILL MAKE NO AUTOMATIC COLLECTION ON LIFE AND LIVING./ YOUfylLL BE NO OLDER IN 1990/THAN YOU ARE IN 1989/BUT YOU MAY BE A LITTLE WISER,/OR YOU SHOULD BE./ TIME IS NOT A TOXIC POISON/EXERTING A MYSTERIOUS CUMULATIVE ACTION ON THE TISSUES./ IT IS SIMPLY THE BELIEF IN THE EFFECTS OF THEm/tHAT ACTS AS THE POISON./ TRUE, YOU HAVE MOVED AROUND THE SPIRAL MORE TIMES,/BUT EACH TIME AROUND /YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DRAW MORE/uPON TIME'S INFINITE POSSIBILITIES./ IF YOU ARE BUSY NUMBERING THE TIMES AROUND THE SPIRAL,/YOU ARE AGING,/ BUT IF EACH TIME AROUND/YOU SEE WITH A NEW PERCEPTION THAT IS EVER FRESH AND INTERESTED,/YOU ARE YOUTHING.
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING./.BUT I SAY IT TIME AND AGAIN ANtWAY,(FOR
MOST OF US FORGET /- 1990 WILL BE NO DIFFERENT FROM 1989/UNLESS YOU
, J	1	.	Ti'CC^et^c,. ,
ARE DIFFERENT. / IlJWILL CONTAIN ALL THE SAME POSSIBILITIES,/BUT*WILL
YOU REALIZE THEM? / OF COURSE THE POSSIBILITIES ARE NOT IN THE YEAR/
OR THE CALENDAR,(BUT IN YOU! ijAS/ty ***** fe? * I
TODAY WE COME TO THE END OF A DECADE (which we have called the 80'S/
AND WE CROSS THETTHRESHOLd/oVER IN TO A NEW DECADE)(which will be
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called the 90"S). / AND WE WANT TO GIVE 4 FOCUS OF OUR ATTENTION , ,	<	m	iw
ON PEACE./.AN ENTIRE DECADE OF PEACE.	(****?£■
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PEACE IS NOT JUST AN ABSENCE OF WAR. / DUIi-fT jj^THi¥h-/ TODAY WE WANT TO ENVISION A WORLD OF PEACE AMONG MEN AND NATIONS.
A LITTLEfeOY ONCE SAID TO HI^FATHER/ "DAfl,I HATE WAR!"/tHE FATHER SWELLED A LITTLE WITH PRIDE/lN KNOWING THAT HIS SON WAS DOING SOME SERIOUS THINKING./ HE ASKED, "AND WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT, Son" /'BECAUSE WARS MAKE HISTORY,AND I HATE HISTORY!"

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with the events of the last few months,/it is apparent that mankind
HAS BEENGIVEN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ESTABLISHING A48MVT MANIFESTATION OF WORLD PEACE./BUT IN TERMS OF PEOPLE ANIMAT I ONs/lT MUST BE SAID THAT PEACE DOES NOT COMEDO US,/bUT THROUGH US./ As ILrErOMTE DU NOUl , SAID IN HIS BOOK "HUMAN DESTINY": />EACE MUST BE ESTABLISHED BY TRANSFORMING J MEN FROM THE INTERIOR,/ND NOT BY ERECTING EXTERN#.STRUCTURES. /THE I SOURCE OF ALL WARS,/hE SOU?RCE OF ALL EVIL,/LIES II^JS./NO ^OUTSIDE I I PROTECTION WILL BE EFFICIENT/lF T^ENEMY COWERING AT THE BOTTOlflF )| OUR HEARTHS AUTHORIZED TO LIVE."
LET THERE BE PEACE,..WE SING EVERY SUNDAY...AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME.
IAS ANDPTIM/SM FOR
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STIC./.FOR WE HAVE JtfST THIS/DECAJJE'AHgftD TO BRING HIS VISIOJ
FULFILLMENT." H<
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TfcLF V4-SI0N OFfENNYSOiQTIMHS POFM "4-Qmi FY HAM” CPFJU^ JO OUR
coiTTemporarTeXperience.
"Fnp 1 niPT INTO THF F"TURF-—FAR AS HUMAN EYE COULD SEE-,
-SArniE Vision or the world, anitall the wonder that-would be.
. .. .TILL THE WAR DRUMS MIKULD'13-NO LONGER, ANfr-THE-DATTLC TLAGG ^WERE FN—THE PARTI AMEN I UF I'lAN, THE FEDERATION OF THE WORLD,"-<^LED
iRD DE CHARDTfy SUMjJT UF*WITH VfR WISDOM AND OPTIMISM:	1
"THERE IS NOwAnCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE/THAT MANKIND HAS JUST ENTERED UPON THE GREATEST PERIOD OF CHANGE/rHE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN./ THE ILLS FROM WHICH WE ARE SUFFERING/HAVE HAD THEIR SEAT IN THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN THOUGHT./ BUT TODAY SOETHING IS HAPPENING TO THE WHOLE^TRUCTURE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. / A FRESH KIND OF LIFE
IS STARTING./In THE FACE OF SUCH AN UPHEAVSL/ACTUALLY SHAKEN BY IT,/NO ONE CAN REMAIN INDIFFERENT./ SWEPT ALONG BY THE TIDE OF AFFAIRS,/WHAT CAN WE DO TO SEE CLEARLY/AND TO ACT DECISIVELY?/ NO MATTER WHAT REACTIONS WE MAY HAVE TO CURRENT EVENTS/WE OUGHT FIRST TO REAFFIRM A ROBUST FAITH IN THFj DFSTINY OF MAN./ EVEN IF THAT FAITH IS ALREADY THERE, fu MUST BE" FORTIFIED./ IT IS TOO EASY TO FIND AN EXCUSE FOR INACTION/BY PLEADING THE DECADENCE OF CIVILIZATION/ OR EVEN IfHE IMMINENT END OF THE WORLD./.IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT MANKIND IS NOT AN ACCIDENTAL PHENtfiiNON/OCCURRING BY CHANCE ON ONE OF THE SMALLEST STARS IN THE SKY./ MANKIND REPRESENTS THE CULMINATIOlfOF THE WHOLE MOVEMENT OF MATTER AND LIFE,/SO FAR AS IT* IS WITHIN THE RANGE OF OUR EXPERIENCE./.THE WORLD WOULD NOT FUNCTION^ THERE WERE N£T,/SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF TIME AND SPACE,/A COSMIC POINT OF TOTAL* SYNTHESIS. / FROM THIS POINT THERE RADIATES./.AN ENERGY, WHICH WE CALL LOVE."
1FTTIRIM SOROKlfl) PROF. SOCIOLOGY, HARVARD U.
"IF EVERYONE WOULD DECREASE A PORTION OF HIS HATEFUL EMOTIONS,/
AND ACTIONSjDF ENMITY,/AND INCREASE HIS ACTIONS OFUNSELFIStX-OVE/.,„
TO ALL HUMAN BEINGS,/WE COULD IMPROVE THE MORAL CLIMATE OF MANKIND/
AND CONTRIBUTE TO PEACE/mORE|THAN BY ALL POWER POLITICS AND ARMAMENT RACES./ THE TIME HAS COME/WHEN THE INTENSIVE CULTIVATION OF CREATIVE LOVE^HAS BECOME EVERYBODY"S BUSINESS."__________________________
IN THE 24th CHAPTER OF MATTHEW/jESUS IS RECORDED AS BEING ASKED BY-4HIS
DISCIPLES/WHEN THE THING^E HAD iBEEN TELLING THEM ABOUt/wOULD COME TO PASS,/AND WHAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE WORLD./ This has given TO MUCH SPECULATION /ON THE END OF THINGS./ BUT IT IS A MISTRANSLATE IN THE MARGINAL NOTE IN THE BIBLE IT IS EXPLAINED TH^THE PHRASE
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MEANS / "consummation of the age."
THE Xtmws CYCLE OF WAR AND PEACE IS CAUSED BY ACCUMULATED THOUGHTS/.,.
OF PERSONAL SELFISHNESS AND GREED AND AN IMOSITY,/FORMING AN ATMOSPHERE IN THE RACE CONSCIOUSNESS/VhAT IN UNIVERSAL OR KARMIC LAW MUST ULTIMATELY BE WORKED OUT.
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IN THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BOOK OF REVELATI ON /f HE GREAT WAR OF CONSUMMATION
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ISaTHE "WRATH OF GOD" DESCENDING ON MAN/AND IN SYMBOLISM JJOHfJ GIVES US A WHOLE LIST OF DESTRUCTIVE AGENCIES. "AND I HFAPri k cdfaj VOICE OUT OF THE-TEFTCTSftyiNG TO ~1HE-SEAOI-/WGEt^—‘•6Q--YE, AND-PWR
OTTT-T^F SFVFtL.fiQWI S OF THF MRflTH OF r,nn nun Tiir f-ftnt11'—	AR&—I-'SAW
COMING OtfT Or TttE MOUTH Or THE DRAGON,AND-9UT-&P THE MOtfrrmF~THE
nuni-QF THF MOUTH OF THF Ffll PRHPI-ift tuple iimh fmi S/ PIRl 15T~~AS IT WERE-fROOS: FOR THFY ARF-SPIBITS nr~aEMONS. wnBJO^ftir.c
F'HFM TOGFIHFR IINtft--TIIF WAP OF THF fRFAT pflY QF GOn. THF AlMIFUTV "
AND THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER IN A PLACE CALLED "ARMAGEDDON."
ARMAGEDDON is A CLEANSING PROCESS,/AN ERUPTION TO THE SURFACE OF NEGATIVE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS,/A GREAT MEETING OF SPIRITUAL FORCES ANTAGONISTIC TO MATERIAL FORCES. / ALL HIGHLY SYMBOI If^AI ,/BUT SIMPLY SAYING THAT IN THE GREAT LAW OF COMPENSATION,/OR THE/KARMIC LAW/..NEGATIVES MUST ULTIMATELY COME T|Q THE SURFACE AND BE CLEANSED.
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KIT IS TREMINSICENT OF AN OLD HEBREW CUSTOM. WHEN T*HE SINS OF THE
'PEOPLE GOT SO GREAT COULDN'T BE FORGI VEN/^THQ! WERE PUT ON A GOAT,/AND THE GOAT WASjlRIVEN OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS./ THIS HAPPENS IN THE WORLD CONSCIOUSNESS. /THERE HAS BEEN A OtEANSING,/AND WE ARE NOW BEGINNING A NEW DISPENSATION.
REMEMBER THE CLASSIC LINES THATfFRA GIOVANNI? WROTE TO HIS FRIEND/
THE CONTESSINA OF CHRISTAM BACK IN 1513./."THERE IS NOTHING I CAN GIVE YOU WHICH YOUW NOT GOTj^BUT THERE IS MUCH,/ERY MUCH, THAT,
WHILE I CAN NOT GIVE It/yOU CAN TAKE. / NO HEAVEN CAN COME TO OUR HEARTS/UNLESS OUR HEARTS FIND REST* IN IT TODAY./ TAKE HEAVEN! NO PEACE LIES IN THE FUTURE/WHICH IS NOT HIDDEN IN THIS PRESENT UrffE?-INSTANT. TAKE PEACE!"	h'tft*
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NOWf&DAY WE WANT TO THINK ABOlJ?T$ME THINGS TO Do/bY WAY OF HOLDING A NEW VISIOn/'THIS TIME AROUND" THE SPIRAL/rHAT WE CALL THE NEW YEAR, /)R TEN TIMES ROUND THE SPIRAl/n THE NEXT DECADE.
LldAKbAKbl LEE k^BECI/ ONCE WROTE, COMENTING ON OUR TENDENCY TO KEEP MOVING IN RUTS OF LIMITATION:/"MAYBE WE DON'T LOOK FROM HIGH ENOJTgH UP!"
IF WE WERE TO EXPLAIN* TO THE AVERAGE PERSOhL*«g®*s/lTHAT THE RE§ON FOR THE LIMITATIONS OF HIS LIKOR AFFAIRS/iN THE PAST YEAR/
IS THAT HE HAS NOT BEEN RELEASING HIS GOD-POSSIBILITIESAa** SEEING THINGS FROM A MATERIALISTIC PERSPECTIVE, /, HE MIGHT SAY,"I JUSTf CAN'T SEE IT!"
I LOVE THE STORY OF HENRY FORd/aSKING A WORKER ABOUT HIS AMBITION IN LIFE./ THE YOUNG MAN SAID,/"I WANT TO MAKE A MILLION BIG, ROUND DOLLARS!"/ (THAT WAS A DAY WHEN DOLLARS WERE VERY BIG AND ROUND?/
A FEW DAYS LATER MR. FORD WALKED INTO THE OFFICE OF THE BRASH YOUNG MAN/WITH A PACKAGE:/"HERE IS A LITTLE PRESENT FOR YOU.'/ THE YOUNG MAN OPENEDjlT AND FOIJfND A PAIR OF SPECTACLES WITH LENSENS REMOVEl/AND TWO SILVER DOLLARS II^THEKI? PLACE/ "PUT THEM ON/ WHAT DO YOU SEE?'/
"I CAN'T SEE A THING BUT THE SILVER DOLARS"/ "AND THAT WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR PROBLEM.'/ AND IF YOU HAVE LIMITATION IN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS/ YOU WILL SEE ONLY LIMITATION. JWHTAT ABOU?T YOU? /CAN YOU I OOK FORWART1 AND_SEE THE GOD-POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR LIFE/lN THF COMING YFARj.Aiun THE COMING* DECADE OF THE 90's.	^
ONE OF MY FAVORIT^IbH-E STORIES CONCERNS THE MAN WHO WAS CAUGHT IN A CROWd/whUvJESUS WAS PASSING BY ONE DAY,/AND HE WAS SHORT IN STATURE AND THE CROWDS SO<REAT/tHAT HE COULDN'T SEE./ THE MAN WAS
A SYMBOL OF THE MATERIAL-CENTERED PERSOn/wHO CANNOT SEE THE GOD-POSSIBILITIES OF LIFE^ECAUSE OF THE SILVER DOLLARS.
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THERE IS A ZACCHAEUS FACTOR IN ALL OF US./wE MAY BE ?*$irof stature/
SO WE CANNOT SEE T^HE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF LIFE./.WE MAY BE TOO BUSY/
OR TOO PREOCCUPIED fio PRAY/OR ENGAGE IN UPLIFTING MEDITATIONS./ AND WE MAY FALL DOWN ON OIKCOMMIMENT/TO ATTEND A MEETING SUCH AS THIS/
DEVOTED TO "CREATIV WORTHSHIP'/BECAUSE WE NEED THE RFST./OR IT IS TOO FAR TO RIDE,/OR IT I) TOO COLP/OR TOO^HO/OR TOCj RAINY/ OR WE HAVE SOME THINGS TO GET CAUGHT UP WITH AT/lOflE.
BUT ZACCHAEUS WANTED TO SEE JESUS ON THAT DAY SO FER^TLY/THAT HE CLTlMBED A TREE. /AND IT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. / I WANT TO SUGGEST,
AS A PRESCRIPTION FOR A DECADE OF PEACE,/SOME TREES TO CLIMB./ WHAT WE ARE STRESSING IS THAT PEACE BEGINS WITHIN YOU./ WE DON'T WANT TO ENGAGE IN PREACHING ABOUft PEACE/AND WHAT <F«fiE WORLD MUST DO TO ACHIEVE IT./ BUT WHA®T WE CAN DO TO KEEP THE SPIRAL MOVING UPWARDS,/ SO THAT WE MAY BE AN INFLUENCE FOR PEACi/ BY THE LIGHT OF OUR CON SC I OLI^SS 1
1— THE TREE OF ASPIRATION:	WE ALL START LIFE WITH HOPES AND DREAMS,.,BUT
AS THE YEARS ROLL ON LIKE FALLING LEAVES, WE <fBE%ME SETTLED AND CYNICAL, AND LIFE BECOMES PROSAIC AND ROUfTINE. IN HIS NOVEL, "THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE", 1THQMAS HARDY?REFERS TO THE TJTPICAL tCONFORMITY-RIDDEN CONSCIOUSNESS OF PEOPLE/AS THE "WELL-PROPORTIONED MIND."
He says the "WELL-PROPORTIONED MIND"/s ONE THAT SHOWS NO PARTICULAR BIAS:/ONE OF WHICH WE MAY SAFELY SAY/THAT IT WILL NEVER CAUSE ITS OWNER/TO BE CONFINED AS A MADMAN/TORTURED AS A HERETIC/OR CRUCIFIED AS A BLASPHEMER. /ALSO, ON THE OTHER HAND/THAT IT WILL NEVER CAUSE HIM TO BE APPLAUDED AS A PROPHET,/REVERED AS A PRIEST/ OR EXALTED AS A KING. /iTS USUAL BLESSINGS ARE HAPPINESS ANIjlMED I PC RITY ■"
WE MAY BE A LITLE{_IKE THE YOUNGSTER^HO DECIDED TO RUN AWAY FROM HOME./WHEN HE TOLD HIS MOTHER OF HIS INTENTONS,/ SHE HELPED HIM PACK|\ BAG/AND FIXED A LUNCH FOR H®M./ HE STARTED OUT BRAVEL'/
BUT WHEN NIGHT FELL HE CAME HOME./ HE CARRIED AN ARMLOAD OF WOOD TO IPHE KITCHEN STOVE. /NO ONE PAID ANY ATENTION TO HIM. HE HELPED
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BUT
SET THE TABLE FOR SUPPER/ DID SEVERAL CHORES /- AND WHEN NO COMMENT
WAS MADE ABOUT HIS ABSENCE, /lE LOOKED AT TABBY ASLEEP BY THE FIRE /
AND SAID, "WELL...,I SEE YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME OLD CAT."
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SO, WE VENTURE iN OUR SEARCH FOR LIFE'S RAINBOWS,/AND EVENTUALLY RETURN TO FIND THE "SAME OLD CAT"/oF WISHING AND WANTING FOR THINGS/*
WHY? BECAUSE WE HAVE BECOME SHORT OF STATURE/nD CAN'T SEE OVER TIHE CROWDS OF LIMITING THOUGHTS,/.WE CAN'T SEE A flfllNG FOR THE DOLLARS IN THE LENSES OF OUR GLASSES,
SO THE FIRST PART OF OUR PRESCRIPTION/FOR A DECADE OF PEACE/iS To HEIGHTEN OUR ASPIRATION./.NOT JUT WISHING FOR THINGS OR
FOR	A	HIGHER AWARENESS OF TRUTH./. NOT JDST HEAL ING/BUT
A HEALTH-CONSCIOUSNESS./.NOT JUST MONEY/5UT A PROSPERITY CONSCIOUSNESS^, NOT JUST MCORE YEARS TO OUR LIFE^UT MORE LIFE TO OUR YEARS.
THE WOH> TO ABRAHAM uftg/»i nor up Fonp| ymror vnn a^f/ and All 1HAT YOlfc.AN SFF YOU CAN HAVE.'YcAN YOU SEE SOLUTIONS/AND NOT JUST PROBLEMS*/
FOR YOUR SEEING IS THE POJECTItyOF POWER./ SEE PEACE AMONff NATIONS./.
SEE THE CONTINUING SPREAD OF FREEDOM FOR ALL PERSONS/. .SEE HEALING AND EVEN MIRACLE CURES FOR ALL ILLNESS./.S^E THE UNFOLDMENT OF PLENTY TO FEED THE HUNGRY E\TIiRYWHERE./.SEE THE RADIANCE OF ALL-ENCOMPASSING
love/to heal all loneliness^nd separation,/ and fill every life
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WITH A SENSE OF FULFILLMENT.	#1	Tkdt
THE TREE OF DEDICATION/ZACCHAEUS REPRESENTS THAT IN MAN/THAT EVENTUALLY RECOGNIZES THE NEED TOMAKE LIFE COUNT./he WAS RICH IN WORLDLY WEALTH/
HE HAD ALL THAT HE COULD POSSIBLE HAVE;/BUT HE KN&rTHAT HE HAD NOT AWAINED ALL THE HE COULD BE./ SO HE CLIMBED A TREE,/
MANY PERSONS MAY SEE THEMSELVES AS "GOOD CHRISTIANS. OR GOOD 4EKS, OR GOOD TRUTH STUDENTS.■■BUT THE ZACCHAEUS FACTOR IN Us/rEALIZES THAT IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE GOOD,/ONE MUST BE GOOD FOR SOMETHING.
WE NEED TO CLIMB\HE TREE OF DEDICATION,/TO SEE OVER OUR WORLDLY
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ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION, / AND REALIZE THAT THE ONLY CONTRIBUTION/
TO THE PEACE AND STABILITY OF THE WORLD/iS IN THE REALM OF CONSCIOUSNESS./ WHAT WE HAVE BFCOMF. /THE TREE OF DEDICATION ENABLES US TO SEE THE TRUTH,/TO SEE THAT THE ONLY HAPPINESS WE EVER KNOW /s WHEN WE ARE GRBOWING, /tlHEN WE ARE GIVING, WHEN WE ARE SERVING.
TO PARAPHRSE A COMMON AXIOM, /"WHAT YOU HAVE IS THEjlJN I VERSE'S GIFT TO YOU./.WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME IS YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNIVERSE *A0UR PART IN ACHIEVING WORLD PEACE.
ZACCHAEUS WAS A HATED TAX COLLECTOR./ FROM HIS TREE-TOP PERSPECTIVE/
HE S«W THAT HIS LIFE HAD BEEN DEVOTED/TO SELFISHLY ACCUMULATING MONEY AND POWER. / HE HAD NOT REALLY DONE WRONG. / IN HIS T?IME THE POSITlion Of tax COLLECTOR/1*/AS PART OF THE SP#ILS SYSTEM./ BUT rT~OW HE COULD SEE THAT THE LACK IN HIS LIFE^AS THAT HE WAS NOT MAKING ANY POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION.
:ORGE BERNARD SHAWl FACETIOUSLY SAId/DMT ONCE A YEAR EVERYONE
SHOULD CSE CALLED BEFORE A UNIVERSAL TRIBUNAL/AT WHICH TIME HE MUST JUSTIFY HIS LIFE./.AND IF HE COULD NOT JUSTIFY THE SPACE HE WAS TAKING UP IN THE UNIVERSE, /lIS LIFE SHOULD BE SUMMARILY TAKEN FROM HIM. TO*** *»•
EVERY LIFE IS A USELESS LIF|XUNLESS IT BECOMES A CHANNEL THROUGH
SOME GOOD FLOWS./YOU HAVE NEVER LIVED A PERFECT DAY/EVEN THOUGH
YOU MAY HAVE EARNED MUCH MONEY/AND ACHIEVED GREAT GOALS,/UNLESS
YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE OR FOR SOME CAUSE, THAT WILL
NEVER BE ABLEjrO COMPENSATE YOU J	&*>KA<r M	***£
|>THE TREE OF DISCIPLINE:	IT	IS	A	WORD	THAT	FEW	PEOPLE LIK^(REMEMBERING
TIMES WHEN WE WERE "DISCIPLINED" AS CHILDREN)/ DISCIPLINE DOES NOT MEAN SUPPRESSION./.BUT CHANNELED EXPRESSION./ IT MEANS COMMITMENT TO A GREAT IDEA /- THE LOVE OF TRUTH<(/aND COMMITMENT TO THE PERSISTENT EFFORT TO UNFOLD YOUR GOD-POSSIBILITIES.
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THE CROWD WHAT OBSCURED fettSttS VIEW WAS ALSO A MATTER OF HIS SELF-INDULGENCE AlE ARE TOO EASY ON OURSELVES,/wE lfclVE UP TOP READILY WHEN CONCENTRATION AND MORE DRIVE ARE CALLED FOR.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT PROGRESS IS NOT ALWAYS A STRAIGHT LINE/GOING UPWARD WITHOUT A BREAK./'HERE MAY WELL BE UP§f AND DOWNS./ SO WE NEED MUCH PATIENCE WITH OURSELVES.
DISCIPLINES CHIEFLY MENTAL-/THE COMMITMENT TO OCCASIONALLY SAY
"NO!" TO THE NEGATIVES AROUND YOU,/aND THE INTERNAL PULL OF THE ^	,	1	/<	rr>»v6*r	,
HUMAN IN YOU ./THOUGHT CONTROL IS NOTSUP»PRESSION OF 'W^N-G / BUT COMMITMENT OF THOUGHT TO HIGHER VALUES./.NOT THINKING ABOUT THINGS "OUT THERE"./.BUT THINKING THE KIND OF THOUGHTS TftlAT LEAD TO THINGS AS YOU WANT THEM TO MANIFEST IN YOUR LIFE AND IN THE WORLD.
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IT IS COMMITMENT TO THE INNER FLOW THJftPKEEPS YOU RIGHT SIDE UP'** ***'
WHEN THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN." BUT THIS TAKES PRACTICE.
(LETTER FROM SOME PEOPLE WHO HVE MOVED TO ANOTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY. . .TELLING OF THE GREAT CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THEIR LIVES...AND THEIR AFFAIRS — WHICH THEY ATTRIBUTE TO THEIR EXPOSURE TO TRUTH AT OUR SUNDAY EXPERIENCES HERe/\N$D BY DAILY COMWWITH OUlR RADIO BROADCASTS. THEY SAID, "WE HAVE LEARNED TO SAY "NO!" TO ALL THE NEGATIVE THAT USEVTO PLAGUE US..AND TO SAY "YES!" TO LIFE.)
OF COURSE THE IMPLICATION^ THIS LETTER TESTIMONIAL IS THE COMMITMENT TO DISCIPLINED PRACTICE. THIS LEiTTER WRITER SAID, "IF PEOPLE KNEW THE REWARDS THAT WOULD COME, THEY WOULD MAKE A COMMITMENT TO ATTEND SUNDAYS AT AVERY FISHER HALL EVERY SUNDAY DURING 1990. INjlTHER WORDS...SET A GOAL AND DISCIPLINE YOURSELF TO KEEP IT.
SO, ZACCHAEUS CLIMBED A TREE AND GOT A GOOD GLIMPSE OF JESUS PASSING BY. THE ACCOUNT OF THIS REVEALS A GREAT PLUS THAT COMES THROUGH COMMITMENT.
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JESUS LOOKED UP AND SAID, "CQtfDOWN, I WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH YOU IN YOUR HOUSE." IN OTHER WORDS THE COSMIC FLOW IS ALWAYS PRESENT, WAITING ONLY FOR OUR I'fOVE OF COMMITMENT: OF ASPIRATION, DEDICATION, AND DISCIPLINE.
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ZACCHAEUS MM) A WONDERFUL HOUR WITH JESUS/AND WHEN HE CAME OUT HE
ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS GOING TO GIVE HALF OF HIS FORTUNE TO FEED'fTHE POOl/AND TO MAKE RESTITUTION TO ALL THOSE / WHO HfHAD DEFRAUDED,/ IN OTHER WORDS, HE WAS A CHANGED MAN.
IN (CTOYD C. DOUGLAS7 BOOK, "THE ROBE",/mARCELLUS IS ASKING MIRIAM WHAT HAPPEND,/WHAT JESUS HAD SAID TO ZACCHAEUS/ MIRIAM HER HE^b /'NOBODY KNOWS...MAYBE HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL./ PERHAPS HE LOOKED ZACCHAEUS SQUARE IN^HE EYES/iNTtf’THE MAN SAW REFLECTED there/fhe IMAGE OF THE PERSON HE WAS MEANT TO BE."
JESUS REFERRED TO A DYNAMIC PRINCIPLE,/WHEN HE SAID, "I, if I be LIFTED UP WILL DRAW ALl/lEN UNTO *ME.'/tHIS REFERS TO THE GREAT TRUTH/ THAT ANY KIND OF RPIRTTllAl ppnMTHj/aniK to thf iipi TFTflBNT OF THE
PLANET. /YOU MAY THINK THAT THE PEACE OFlrHE WORLD IS A MATTER FAR BEYOND YOUR ABILITY TO BE A HELP./ BUT ANY KIND OF LIFTING UIP IN
your consciousness/teni5«s TO LIFT UP THE WHOLE.
DURING THE PAST CENTURY WE HAVE MADE UNBELIEVABLE PROGRESS/^ UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING THE RESOURCES OF TH WORLDVE LIVE IN./ BUT WE HAVE LAGGED FAR BEHIND IN EXPLORING THE DEPTHS WITHIN OUiRELVEy TO BECOME WHAT JESUS CALLS "PEACEMAKERS"ilE MUST BEGIN TO SEE OUlftSELV^f AS INTEGRAL PARTS OF A WHOLE UNIVERSE Jit is true, "As a man thinketh so is~he."/Bute’s ALSO TRUE,/tHAt7s WE THINK,/WE INFLUENCE THE STABILIT?Y OF THE COSMOS./ WE MAY FIND THAT DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT,/ PERHAPS BECAtfiC'WCDON'T WANT TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT SOMETHING OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS/iS PART OF THE CAUSE OF EVERYTING THT OCCURS
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TOD'AY IS A SPECIAL DAY FOR MAJW PERSONS, /wHO ARE JO IN11^3 HANDS IN
THIS ARE COMMENDABLE./.#!
ACTIVITIES
ION THAT PRAYER IS AT	BE	BROUGHT
S WILL SATISFY THEMSELVES EFFORT,/THEY HAVE DONE flTHEIR PEACE...AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME."/
T IT CONTINIIF if*1 FI nu lfHPnnrH MF I
SPSIRING. /ANDlKEEP MY THOUGHTS AND FFFI INGS DFDICATFD/
CAN YOU GET THE VISION OF PEACE IN ALL THE WORLD IN THE 90's?/ IT WILL HfELp/lF YOU CAN GEl/AN OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD IN A PLANETARY SENSE./ PERHAPS WE ARE TOO CLOSE TO THE]rREES TO SEE THE FOREST (TO REVERSE THE SAYING)./ WE MAY BE TOO LOCKED IN TO A 'PERCEPTION /THAT INVOLVES DIFFERENCES AND SEPARATI ON/BETWEEN MEN AND NATIONS ON EARTH.
IN 19A8iFRED HOYLE! ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING ASTRONOMERS,/ BOLDLY PREDICTED THAT "ONCE A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE EARTH/rAKNFROM OUTSIDE,/
IS AVAILABLE,/ONCE THE SHEER ISOLATION OF THE EARTH BECOMES PLAIN,/
A NEW IDEA AS POWERFUL AS ANY IN HISTORY WILL BE LET LOOSE."
A GENERATItNLATER,/iN WHAT MAY BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY/ WE LOOKED BACK TO EARTH WITH THE ASTRONAUTS FROM THE MOON/BY MEANS OF A TELEVISION RELAY,/AND SAW "THE BLUE PLANET" (EARTH) FOR THE FIRST TIME/FROM THE PESPECTIVE OF SPACE./ THIS SINGULAR IMAGE CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER.'/ SOMETHING SMAI.1 AND TRIBAL IN OUR UNDERSTANDING T)TFT) THAT DAY/ S0MFTH1NG LARGER WAS BORN./ FOR FROM THAT OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE WE SAW ONF WORID./ ONE RACE OF MANKIND,/ONE WHOLg^OCIETY.
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IT HAS BEEN A SLOW PROCESS,/AND IT IS NO TIME TO BECOME IMPATIENMT,/
FOR WE ARE DEALING WITH MATTERS THAT TRANSCEND TIME./ BUT WE ARE SEEING HOPEFUL CHANGES ,/l RON CURTAI	N WALLS
RESTRICTIVE IDEOLOGIC? T^AT SEPARATE/ARE DISSOLVING AND A NEW SENSE OF UNITY IS BEING MANIFEST.
UNFOLDING IN THE CONSCIOUSNESSjC)F THE RACE OF MAN/lS THE POWERFUL CONCEPT OF A TOTALLY INTEGRATED,/SELF-ORGANIZING,/sELF-REGULATING LIVING PLANEt/0F WHICH EACH ONE OF US IS AN INEXTRICABLE PABT./
FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE,/THE EARTH IS US,/lT ISNOT OURS./WE ARE EARTHLINGS.) PHYSICALL/AND SPIRITUALLy/wE ARE WOVEN INTO THE LIVING PROCESSES OF THE PLANET ITSELF./WHAT GOES ON IN YOUR MIND,/AND WHAT ENERGY YOU PROJECT IN ALL YOUR CONTACTS WITH TiHE WORLD/HAS A MEASURABLE INFLUENCE UPON SOCIETY AS A WHOLE/AND UPON THE SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE
OF THE WORLD.	fr/iC.	ft*"*	^
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AT OUR RETREAT/HIS PAST SUMMER ON/rHE LOVELY CAMPUS OF CEDAR CREST . f
UttWOCHY,/WE ENGAGED IN AN EXERCISEYHAT MANY PEOPLE SAID/WAS ONE OF THE MOST MOVING EXPERIENCESOF THEIR LIVES./ IT wUSA*NIGHT OF SILENCE/ AND THE ENTIRE GROUP OF W 3g0 PEOPLE FORMED A LARGE CIRCLE,/SYMBOLIZING SURROUNDING THE WORLD, THE "BLUE PLAfiEfl" WITH A POSITIVEVIBRATI^IOF PEACE AND LOVE./A^ffc^WAS PASSED FROM PERSON TO PERSON,/EACH PERSON RINGING IT AND PASSING IT ON,/UNTIL IT WENT ALI/AROUND THIS GREAT CIRCLE./ SOMETIMES THE RINGING OF THE BELL SEEMED FAR IN THE DISTANCE,/BUT ITS TONE CAME THROUGH AND THE BELL WAS SAFELY PASSED ON V AND WHEN THE CIRCLE HAD BEEN COMPLETED, THE BELL WAS RUNb foYFULLTy AS £IN A GREAT CELEBRATION OF PEACE,/
A PROMISE OF PEACE ANi/FREEDOM ON EARTH/^ND FOR ALL PERSONs/lN THE DECADE TO COME.