Alison Ramer ~ Pat Crosby "Remove The Occupation From Your Mind" Audio Interview

Social Healing ~ "This Takes Work" ~ One Person at a Time

We caught Alison Ramer enroute to Jerusalem, just after an explosion rocked the city there.  She shares her hopes, dreams, and visions that give her the stamina to go back to the war zone and continue the fight for peace, justice, forgiveness and healing. In this passionate heartfelt statement, Alison shares the vision and hope that her generation share and how social media is helping them unify in their common humanity.

"...most of us choose not to harm one another and I condemn with compassion all others ... who feel the need to kill their relatives in order to be heard. I pray that we will look past our fear, hatred and anger  towards the "other" and look towards the day  when the only disasters we'll have to deal with will be natural disasters." ~ Alison Ramer

LISTEN TO THIS HEALING FORGIVENESS AUDIO HERE

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About Alison

Alison Avigayil Ramer   
http://alisonramer.com/

Al-Tariq - Parent's Circle Families Forum 
http://altariq.wordpress.com/

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“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night 

 already devoid of stars. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.“ ~ Martin Luther King Jr

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Baltimore TV Stations Campaign for Love and ForGIVEness...

Hello Dear Hearts,

How wonderful that TV stations have joined campaigns for the spreading of ForGIVEness.

Here is an inspiring article to lighten your day.

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Our GIVE-AWAYS over the past 2 weekends have been huge successes --- ALL the copies we printed with our donations (87% of our donations go directly for printing our free copies) have been swooped up - with gratitude - by individuals crying out to learn how to forgive.

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Campaign for Love and Forgiveness ends, but impact lives on

Foundation's 4-year initiative claims lasting effects

June 13, 2010|By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun

An interfaith peace garden in Northeast Baltimore builds tolerance among religions through annual conversations about forgiveness. At-risk youth forgive others and themselves with the help of drumming and dance.

It's all part of a four-year Maryland Public Television campaign wrapping up this Tuesday to promote love and forgiveness. But participants say the program, part of an effort to build the concepts nationwide, will have a lasting impact.

MPT was one of five stations that worked with the Fetzer Institute, a foundation based in Michigan that "engages with people and organizations to bring the power of love, forgiveness and compassion to the center of individual and community life," said Linda Grdina, an officer with the Fetzer program.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-06-13/news/bs-md-forgiveness-campaign-20100613_1_forgiveness-stations-fetzer-institute

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Dear Hearts,

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a limb for a limb makes the whole world blind, dumb, and lame.

Forgive NOW.

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Forgiveness opens the door in your heart to love.

1. Do you self-sabotage?
2. Do you have feelings of unworthiness?
3. Do you drag around old baggage?
4. Do you wall yourself up and create hard places that make you sick?
5. Do you know you can hurt your heart by holding grudges and judgments?
6. Do you want to have more love?
7. Do you want to experience unconditional love?





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See the Glass as Already Broken - for peace of mind

Already Broken

“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

- Mark Epstein  

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How many times have you gotten upset because someone wasn’t doing their job, because your child isn’t behaving, because your partner or friend isn’t living up to his or her end of the bargain?

How many times have you been irritated when someone doesn’t do things the way you’re used to? Or when you’ve planned something carefully and things didn’t go as you’d hoped?

This kind of anger and irritation happens to all of us — it’s part of the human experience.

One thing that irritates me is when people talk during a movie. Or cut me off in traffic. Or don’t wash their dishes after eating. Actually, I have a lot of these little annoyances — don’t we all?

And it isn’t always easy to find peace when you’ve become upset or irritated.

Let me let you in on a little secret to finding peace of mind: see the glass as already broken.

See, the cause of our stress, anger and irritation is that things don’t go the way we like, the way we expect them to. Think of how many times this has been true for you.

And so the solution is simple: expect things to go wrong, expect things to be different than we hoped or planned, expect the unexpected to happen. And accept it.

One quick example: on our recent trip to Japan, I told my kids to expect things to go wrong — they always do on a trip. I told them, “See it as part of the adventure.”

And this worked like a charm. When we inevitably took the wrong train on a foreign-language subway system, or when it rained on the day we went to Disney Sea, or when we took three trains and walked 10 blocks only to find the National Children’s Castle closed on Mondays … they said, “It’s part of the adventure!” And it was all OK — we didn’t get too bothered.

So when the nice glass you bought inevitably falls and breaks, someday, you might get upset. But not if you see the glass as already broken, from the day you get it. You know it’ll break someday, so from the beginning, see it as already broken. Be a time-traveler, or someone with time-traveling vision, and see the future of this glass, from this moment until it inevitably breaks.

And when it breaks, you won’t be upset or sad — because it was already broken, from the day you got it. And you’ll realize that every moment you have with it is precious.

Expect your child to mess up — all children do. And don’t get so upset when they mess up, when they don’t do what they’re “supposed” to do … because they’re supposed to mess up.

Expect your partner to be less than perfect.

Expect your friend to not show up sometimes.

Expect things to go not according to plan.

Expect people to be rude sometimes.

Expect coworkers not to come through sometimes.

Expect roommates not to wash their dishes or pick up their clothes, sometimes.

Expect the glass to break.

And accept it.

You won’t change these inevitable facts — they will happen, eventually. And if you expect it to happen — even see it as already happening, before it happens — you won’t get so upset.

You won’t overreact. You’ll respond appropriately, but not overreact. You can talk to the person about their behavior, and ask them kindly to consider your feelings when they do this … but you won’t get overly emotional and blow things out of proportion.

You’ll smile, and think, “I expected that to happen. The glass was already broken. And I accept that.”

You’ll have peace of mind. And that, my friends, is a welcome surprise.

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