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    I OFFER MESSAGES FOR THE TREK OFTEN (as of September 2002) IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE AND EQUIP US AS WE CONTINUE TO BUILD A GLOBAL VILLAGE SOLIDLY BASED ON LOVE.

    I WROTE THESE GOOD NEWS AMBASSADOR GUIDELINES IN 1986 AND HAVE BEEN GUIDED BY THEM EVER SINCE. I INVITE YOU TO CONSIDER THEM.

    PONDER THESE IDEAS AND RESOURCES FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION WHICH I HAVE PUT INTO SOME KIND OF PRIORITY ORDER. MANY WEBSITES ARE INCLUDED HERE WITH LOTS OF WISDOM FOR THE TREK.

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    SOLITUDE

    + "You do not need to do anything; you do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You do not even need to listen; just wait. You do not even need to wait; just become still, quiet and solitary and the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet." -- Franz Kafka

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    WEB RESOURCES:

  • NEW 2/26/07: The Hermitary offers recommendations from Evagrius Ponticus on this practice. Warning: If you take these recommendations seriously, you will have to change your life a lot if you are anything like me or most of us very privileged netizens.
  • NEW 1/18/07: The Orthodox Church of America offers "On Silence and Solitude" by the Very Rev. John Breck.
  • LINK FIXED 9/5/06: Spirituality & Practice offers a book review of THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE by Thomas Merton.
  • LINK FIXED 9/5/06: Spirituality & Practice offers a book review of THE WONDERS OF SOLITUDE edited by Dale Salwak.
  • LINK FIXED 9/5/06: Spirituality & Practice offers a book review of LEARNING TO LOVE: EXPLORING SOLITUDE AND FREEDOM, Vol. 6, 1966-1967 by Thomas Merton (edited by Christine M. Bochen). Here's an excerpt: "Love and solitude are the one ground of true maturity and freedom. Solitude that is just solitude and nothing else (i.e. excludes everything else but solitude) is worthless. True solitude embraces everything, for it is the fullness of love that rejects nothing and no one, is open to All in All."
  • The Four Precepts offers "The Freedom of Solitude" by Gerald May, an article which gets to the heart of why solitude leads us to our realization that we are citizens of heaven. We lose our old self and become a new self much more connected to the All.

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