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| Dearest Loves,
There are 3.5 more weeks of the program...and 100% left!
In the interest of absolute communication, velocity, and efficiency, I am officially retiring this site. I see that up-to-the-minute updates are only available by e-mail/phone. Thank you for all your support and for what each of you have already caused. The ripples never end...being is forever.
Let's turn this out.
"If not me, then who?
If not now, then when?"
Yours, k.
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| Important dates:
Friday, February 22nd - Classroom #15 and Orientation
Friday, March 7th - Classroom #16 Completion Evening
Friday, April 4th, 3pm - End of statistical period. No extensions beyond this date.
Availability:
Richard available Wednesday and Thursday evening.
Lori available to host homework party at her place Thursday evening, 7:30-10:30pm.
Thank you everyone for who you have been being since 4th Weekend. How this showed up for me was suddenly I had no homework parties to manage because you were being independent, self-sufficient, and proactive. There are six weeks left until the statistical end of the course. Pull the course towards you and, if you find yourself stopped, be in communication. I can't stress this enough. Thank you!
Xarissa is arranging room captains, Sarah G. is arranging who is leading, and I will be posting Coaches' availability here for anyone who still needs to master the format.
You have our love and our support.
100% of your course starts now.
(100% of your life starts now!)
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| "My notion about service is actually that kind of relationship in which
you have a commitment to the other person. Now, I don't mean to the
person's body or to the person's personality, or to the person's
stomach, or the person's almost anything. What I mean in fact is that
for me what service is about is being committed to the other being. To
the other person spiritually. To who the other person is. Now the problem
with that is that, to the degree that you are in fact committed to the
other person, you are only as valuable as the degree to which you can
deal with the other person's stuff, their evidence, their
manifestation, and that's what service is about. Service is knowing
who the other person is and being able to tolerate giving space to
their garbage. What most people do is to give space to people's quality and
deal with their garbage. Actually, you should do it the other way
around. Deal with who they are and give space to their garbage. Keep
interacting with them as if they are God. And every time you get
garbage from them, give space to the garbage and go back and interact
with them as if they were God."
- Werner Erhard
Dear ILP family,
You guys were amazing at 4th Weekend. You brought Karen, Kathy, the Coaches, and everyone from New York, Boston, Montreal, Jersey and out-of-area to tears, laughter, and endless inspiration. I'm actually rather speechless about it, which is not that bad of a thing since this is the logistics site and it wouldn't be appropriate to go on about each one of you for pages and pages (which I would!). It was one of the best weekends of my life.
I do have something to put in about our human tendency to stick to what is convenient and familiar. This might look like working with one coach religiously (perhaps yours), hanging out with the same people from the course repeatedly, always sitting with the same share partner, etcetera. While no one could deny the sacredness of the bonds we have formed, in my opinion you're selling yourself and everyone else short to not be with and reach out to the community...each and every. Being contribution and being contributed to. You live in the listening of others. I feel like I finally got that for myself this weekend.
Homework parties are needed for anyone who is not completely signed off on the format. Please e-mail details to me. On my availability, I am the second-most enrollable person around... 
Let's turn this out.
Love,
k. Exquisite free-falling grace. | | |
| Full speed ahead!
Third weekend was amazing!
We are terribly proud of the ground you all took.
Each and every one of you really showed up...as yourselves.
I intend that everyone got home safe, and for those of you who haven't made the trek home yet, that you do get home safe. I "room captained" Richard throughout the evening drive back. I have much to share with you, but on to the logistics (as we have a certain focus for this site).
Reserve Coaches quickly
when availability is given. There is no guarantee that they will
keep saving that time slot--especially as time draws closer to it. A
homework party then requires a host to secure a venue and look
after any other details. I have
put  emoticons beside the homework parties that are confirmed to happen...other
than that, it's up to you guys to cause!
I noticed I have been missing some e-mails. Please make sure when you are sending e-mails that you use the most recently updated roster (from Sarah G., January 28th). You can do this by pressing "reply to," then changing the subject, or by copy and pasting to your outgoing mail. I am sure no want wants to miss anything you have to say. Thank you.
Here is the quote the fabulous Miss Kathy quoted over the weekend...
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw
back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and
creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely
commits oneself, then Providence moves too, all sorts of things occur
to help one that would never otherwise have occured. A whole stream of
events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of
unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man
could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or
dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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