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<DIV><FONT size=2>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you for all the heartfelt, moving and inspirational
postings. As it happened, on Sep 11, I only found out about the unfolding
calamity because of the postings on this list that came in while I was
working.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>But: I am increasingly bewildered the way this Camino list is
becoming a shouting ground for sometimes conflicting opinions about the
atrocities on Sep 11. Is this the best we can do? Is the way(/camino?)
Where are we trying to get to? Is there anything our experience of the Camino
can show us?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>One thing which the Camino showed me was the uselessness of my
carefully cultivated hobby of righteous indignation. There were plenty of events
that triggered it, but I saw as never before that it only does me harm and never
resolves the situation positively....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>What applies to trivial incidents in an individual's life may
hold good for the enormous event in which we are all plunged, and maybe the
lesson is the same, only this time the world's fate is at risk.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The choice: an eye for an eye, or turning the other
cheek?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Those who follow Christ have the example of an innocent man
put most cruelly to death - and who chose not to defend himself. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>There is dignity, transformation, growth in absorbing the
cruelty and injustice of others - if we can do it. It takes it out of the loop,
stops the escalation. But can we do it? Some say that is what we are here for,
and doing so empowers the soul.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>A middle way lies in understanding. Ultimately, to understand
is to agree. Sometimes it is too easy and convenient to come to conclusions,
including the ones about Good and Evil.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>As for justice, is it possible? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>'Know your enemy' The irony of the present moment is
that we do not. Could it be within?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>And many, looking back in their lives, see that where they
suffered most, they grew most.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>May God Bless us ALL (It probably makes the job easier if
enough of us pray for this!)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Love and peace - despite everything
Charles Clasen</FONT></DIV>
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