First Awakin Circle In Madrid :)
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--Joserra Gonzales
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May 23, 2016

 


ReLOVEution continues in the part of the planet we call spain :)

Just came back from Madrid where a group of 11 noble friends enjoyed the first Awakin-kinda-circle :)

There was incredible magic in the room :) We did 1 hour of silence, and then opened the sharing with the reading "The Spirit of Gift". It was such a great choice which made us all look deep into our own gifts, the ones we are already expressing and those we want to express or explore more :)

After the sharing Miki, Isabel (the hosts) and other volunteers served a delicious and simple dinner :).

It's amazing to see how the magic of the Universal Silence and the Circles of Listening just work everywhere so well...

Just that afternoon Miki and I had another sharing and a friend of ours shared how spirituality and "religious" practices had been privatized and dogmatized by institutions and how people now even react negatively to terms which are connected to or taken by those institutions. He was talking very beautifully about how we have lost connection to those terms and how that disconnection from the terms has also influenced our disconnection to the practices which might help us keep our society healthy. He didn't know we were going to have Awakin Circle just few hours after his intervention, so that made his words even more special.

It is so beautiful to feel how these Circles are bringing back spirituality to the people, with no dogmatism, no centralization of communication, no patriarchy... 

Vinoba wrote somewhere that we cannot aim for perfection outside, perfection can only be reached inside... Although perfection is a subjective and complex term, the experience of the Circle felt kind of perfect :) There are a lot of conditions that have to arise for few noble friends just holding space together :)



 

Posted by Joserra Gonzales on May 23, 2016