Eagle's Quest Tai Chi Advanced study Reading

February, 2010 Greetings! I hope this finds you well and filled with love as we approach Valentine's Day. We will meet at Rose Lodge at 11 a.m. as usual for Advanced Studies this Saturday February 13. Please R.S.V.P. to Debbie if you have not already. This time is one of Community. It is a time filled with the expectation that all will find their place in the order of the Universe and create harmony thereby. What are the needs of the Community? What are the needs of family? What are the needs of humankind? These must be fulfilled through our harmonic work in the world. How we accomplish this is through the work on our craft that manifests healthy discipline. This is a time for working together on goals that can be attained for the good of all. Our aims when consonant create fellowship, when divergent create disharmony. Striking out on one's own is ill advised at this time. Pulling together we can make real accomplishment in the world. When we share the load, the work, the pain, the challenges, we can manifest true change together. Difficulties of all kinds can be overcome when we pull together on the rope of challenge. Newfound unity brings joy like the laughter of a child. Communities exist all around the world. Each with their own ways and their own wills. The traveller who moves into and out of these different places must learn to avoid that which is decadent, search for those who are full of grace and propriety. Be wary of pitfalls which include arrogance, conspicuousness, a lack of humility. Become obliging towards others and your inner voyage will take you to more beautiful shores. Hold to your integrity, hold to the light within. When we question our identity, we begin a search that can be long and hard. Your integrity can "become a lighthouse in the sea of the unknown". Follow the current of good intention and faithful service to the good and the seas will become calmer and more manageable. Move when it is right to move. Be still when it right to be still. Go with the flow, but remember that only dead fish always go with the flow. Sometimes one must swim against the current to find the true way. Yours in common, David