<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kosmos Journal</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:info@kosmosjournal.org">info@kosmosjournal.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 6:07 PM<br>Subject: Where is Paradise?<br>To: <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Reader,</span></span></span>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Is Paradise located outside or inside you? Maybe there is a special place you have been that feels like Paradise: your ancestral home, or an ancient forest. Or maybe you have touched Paradise in silence, or a lover’s caress.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Imagine a hundred people whose minds are full of hatred and anger coming together. They will create hell on Earth for each other and other beings. How about one thousand people! But when a thousand people come together in love, joy, and inclusiveness, they can create a community that is like a Paradise. Our minds form the basis of our hell or heaven. Of course, real conditions of injustice and suffering exist, but when our hearts and minds are anchored in the true nature of being, we have deeper insight into the sources of injustice, and more energy to transform our conditions.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="color:#757575"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Here are collected some thoughts and resources to inspire you this week. Where is Paradise for you? Is it beyond this earthly realm? Or is it here and now in the crucible of community and change? Where two or more gather…may we make a small Paradise.</span></span></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Nanette Lashuay has been a community health organizer for low-wage workers in East Oakland, an anti-war activist, and an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco. After several volunteer stints as a wildlife researcher in Kenya, she moved to Africa in 2007 and now lives in Zanzibar, Tanzania with her husband and two lovely stepdaughters whose native land it is. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review.</span></span></em>
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<span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">An Unexpected Heaven</span></span>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">I once went nose-to-nose with a snake, a red-specked garter<br>
basking on the path, too content—it seemed—to flee at my approach.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">I seized the invitation, bellied-down, and inched over on my elbows<br>
to contemplate the rightness of a snake’s life.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Up close, silicate particles glitter star-size in the dust, many shining<br>
shades of green compose the grass. Skimming shadows make me</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">quiver. Hot sun above, cool earth below bring enlightenment. I long<br>
to slither, leaving swoops of joy and arcs of S’s for birds to chirp.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">From this squat view, human concepts crumble. Meadow dissolves<br>
to forest, a wild tangling of grasses hiding alien-eyed morsels who</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">flee my darting tongue. Mountains, wrinkling the planet’s flesh,<br>
exist no longer. I call my world endless rock, tilting upward.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">What an unexpected heaven this—of waves dashed to particles<br>
of impossible luminosity, of bird song brimming from the primal chaos,</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">of consciousness free to sidle snakewise into every world we know—<br>
and those we don’t yet.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">By <a href="https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04&id=1dcaf50204&e=60482295ca" style="color:#318295;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Said E. Dawlabani</a>, in</span></span><em><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"> Kosmos Quarterly.</span></span></em>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px">Paul Gauguin, Le Paradis Perdu, ca.1890 </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">“…The problem we face today is that human existence, so far, has been limited to what we call the ‘values of subsistence’ where we choose to either compete or cooperate, but with little awareness of planetary effects. We are not fully conscious of the fact that we are an inseparable part of Earth’s ecology. We rarely think in terms of the world being a single organism with its own collective mind, or that we are all part of a compassionate, dynamic whole, inseparable from nature. On our journey so far, we’ve identified our problems of existence to be primarily of social, political, or technological in nature. As we exhausted the values of each system, we successfully sought solutions from a higher-level system throughout the Holocene with little regard to problems of existence that lay outside our subsistence worldview, and therein lays humanity’s biggest challenge.” </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality. —Malcolm X</em></span></span></div>
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