Greetings Brothers and Sisters of the Drum!

It is my distinct pleasure to extend a warm and cordial invitation to one
and all that wish to participate constructively in a consensus oriented
Drum Circle here in Gainesville, FL, USA.

This Circle will be held this coming Saturday, July 12, 2003

(The day before the full moon "moment" this time, well within the three day
window of fullness).

For Details:
<http://home.acceleration.net/clark/DrumO/Drum0.html> or you may email me
at: <mailto:clark@...>.

I created a Yahoo Group listserv to service the community of Drumming
Peace.... to join please visit:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Drumming_Peace/>
or send a blank email to:
<mailto:Drumming_Peace-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>

Thanks and Praises for Everything!

Drumming Peace, R
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We Drum Peace
Peace in our families
Peace in our communities
Peace in our nations
Peace in our world
And peace in ourselves.

Let us never speak lightly of peace, but remind us that what
divides us is far less important than what unites us.

We are grateful for this drumcircle gathering, for the time together, for
the chance to play and listen together, share our experience, and the
opportunity to create new paradigms. Keep us mindful of all that we have
been given, and help us always to share with those who are less fortunate
than we are.

We ask this in the name of all the children of the divine. Amen

"Tighten to nothing the circle that is the world's things. Then the naked
circle can grow wide, enlarging, embracing all."
-Hadewijch II

"If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, and if I can be
generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have and my own
preconceived, silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in
fact I am - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my
fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen."
- John McLaughlin

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible
is music."
- Aldous Huxley

"From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the
formless except the art of music which in itself is formless."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your
consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new,
great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become
alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you
ever dreamed yourself to be."
- Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)

"We turn to Spirit for help when our foundations are shaking,
only to find out that it is Spirit who is shaking them."
- Dan Millman (The Way of the Peaceful Warrior)

"We all desperately want peace...
That is why shalom is such an oft-repeated word.
For, even as a simple greeting, it embodies
deep yearning and solemn promise.
So the ancient sage Hillel insisted
that it is not enough to simply want peace,
to hope for peace, even to pray for peace;
he taught us to "love peace and actively pursue peace."
- Wayne Dosick (Dancing with God)

"We must remind ourselves that, though our lives are small and our acts
seem insignificant, we are generative elements of this universe, and we
create meaning with each act that we perform or fail to perform."
- Kent Nerburn in Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

"The marvelous vision of the peaceable Kingdom, in which all violence has
been overcome and all men, women, and children live in loving unity with
nature, calls for its realization in our day-to-day lives. Instead of being
an escapist dream, it challenges us to anticipate what it promises. Every
time we forgive our neighbor, every time we make a child smile, every time
we show compassion to a suffering person, every time we arrange a bouquet
of flowers, offer care to tame or wild animals, prevent pollution, create
beauty in our homes and gardens, and work for peace and justice among
peoples and nations we are making the vision come true."
- Henri J. M. Nouwen in Bread for the Journey

"Listen to your music,and do what you know you have to do to feel whole, to
feel complete, and to feel you're fulfilling your destiny. You'll never be
at peace if you don't get that music out and let it play. Let the world
know why you're here, and do it with passion....."
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
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