I love you. Thank you.
Some time last month, I was listening to a new spiritual podcast, and the speaker said that we can all heal ourselves and each other by stating, "I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you." Apparently, this series of four short statements healed all the patients of a psychiatric facility, simply by being uttered by a doctor while he was looking at the patient files. I was intrigued. So I googled the phrase and discovered it comes from a Hawaiian spiritual ritual called ho'oponopono .* I found a blogpost that described this "cleaning" process. I found an online article claiming that you can heal the whole planet with ho'oponopono because everything that comes into your sphere of experience is your responsibility.** I searched Amazon for books describing ho'oponopono. I bought Mable Katz 's book "The Easiest Way" .*** And her title may not be an exaggeration. After reading her short book, I have replaced my usual rit...
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Bergen is surrounded by mountains and they are criss-crossed by trails and walking paths, used by exercise buffs and families with strollers alike. You're looking at a path along Storevatnet (Big Pond) on Sandviksfjellet (Mt. Sandy Cove, named after the actual sandy cove at its feet).
Re 9/11: Calling it "patriot day" reminds me of old East Block memorials which are very fond of using "patriot" or "patriotic" in their titles. Makes me think of "Animal Farm". The US seems to be turning into the sort of country it used to criticize.
Hope you are having a great Sunday evening.;)
Here's how I've found some translations: For any subject on Wikipedia, there will be languages listed in the left sidebar on that page. Those languages have their own page on the subject.