sitting in a circle
Table:31
1219 W. 31st Street,
Minneapolis, Mn
9 am to noon
every Saturday
from November 3rd 2012
to April 2013
attention
please share this invitation
with your friends, partner, family
free - all are welcome
this will be our 5th winter that we do this
when we google "stories"
we get over 1,76 trillion results
sitting in a circle ... is a program
to share ... to listen ... to stories
we sing songs - play music
between stories
please remember:
to get the full benefit of our program
come ... with little or no expectations
lean back ... just listen
. . .
a social hour
will follow this program
respect for privacy is essential
we ask permission:
- may i ask you a question
- may i comment to what you said
- may i give you a hug
we keep all sharing confidential
. . .
here are the details:
every Saturday
from Nov 3rd
at 9 am to noon
Table:31
1219 W. 31st Street,
Minneapolis, Mn
. . .
Why sit in a circle?
by Bill Morton
Because it’s cold outside – yah.
Because we can’t sail – yah.
But it’s for discovery.
Sharing in a circle.
we can discover one another
and maybe
we can even discover ourselves.
What we really are is hidden;
it is hidden
in these wonderful bodies of ours.
We are spirits,
embodied spirits,
and we can choose to express them
through words and gestures
or keep them hidden.
Sitting in a circle
we can share our spirits.
And our spirits are wonderful,
maybe more wonderful than we know.
Perhaps, as in all of nature,
we may see the divine in each other,
and if in each other
maybe also in ourselves.
What's the purpose?
Only to experience each other,
only to experience life,
to enjoy each other,
to appreciate each other,
and maybe appreciate ourselves,
and find the divine within.
Let’s sit in a circle,
tell our stories,
listen, relate,
and be filled with awe.
Hope to see you in the circle,
Bill
...
A way of being
By Carl Rogers
A way of being with another person ... means ... temporarily living in their life ... moving about in it delicately ... without making judgments ...
... to be with another in this way ... means ... that for the time being ... you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself ... in order to enter the other's world ... without prejudice ... a complex, demanding, strong ... yet subtle and gentle way of being.
...
signs of a spiritual awakening
Autor unknown
An unmistakable ability
to enjoy each moment.
A loss of interest
in judging people.
A loss of interest
in interpreting the actions of others.
A loss of interest
in conflict.
A loss of ability
to worry.
Frequent and overwhelming episodes
of appreciation.
Contented feelings of connectedness
with others and nature.
Frequent attacks of smiling.
An increased tendency to let things happen
rather than make them happen.
. . .
~ PLEASE! JUST LISTEN ~
By Ray Houghton
When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice,
you have not done what I asked.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why
I shouldn't feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something
to solve my problem,
you have failed me,
strange as that may seem.
Listen! All I ask is that you listen.
Don't talk or do - just hear me.
...
I can do for myself;
I am not helpless.
Maybe discouraged and faltering,
but not helpless.
...
When you do something for me
that I can and need to do for myself,
you contribute to my fear and inadequacy.
But when you accept as a simple fact
that I feel what I feel,
no matter how irrational,
then I can stop trying to convince you
and get about this business
of understanding what's behind
this irrational feeling.
And when that's clear,
the answers are obvious
and I don't need advice.
Irrational feelings make sense
when we understand what's behind them.
...
So please listen, and just hear me.
And if you want to talk,
wait a minute
for your turn
and I will listen to you.
...
greetings, with all our love, from werner
