The Quality of Earth

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Dear Viorica , thanks .I enjoy all your messages .We learn from each other .

I admire the work you are doing on these sites , through Ramana's grace .Every

best wish Alan

 

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Dear Alan , <BR>

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( oh sorry ! it seems today is my day of talking too much ,<BR>

  hope this is the last one . ) <BR>

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I am so glad we talked , as you know what ? I decided to come back <BR>

to the diary  that I interrupted in my teenages. <BR>

A diary has the quality of earth - receives and doesn't respond. <BR>

So again I found how helpful a talk can be and how it directed me<BR>

to do something I would so enjoy. My diary ! What a patience ! <BR>

It's been waiting for me to return to it since my teen ages ! <BR>

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Some time ago I visited the Western Wall to offer a letter to God.<BR>

I was standing there waiting for an opportunity to go near the wall<BR>

and find a proper place to insert the letter ; I took a look around :  <BR>

women - some standing and praying while  touching the wall ,  <BR>

other praying and kissing crying their prayers book ; <BR>

all around women praying and crying facing or touching the wall .<BR>

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There was a young girl , so nice and  young and so deeply crying<BR>

and praying , and I was standing behind her to wait until I could<BR>

approach the wall and she would free the place. <BR>

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Then in that mass of  crying praying women I suddenly felt <BR>

a strong need to cry either , and it was fantastic , I felt as if  <BR>

there was nobody, absolutely nobody and nothing interposed<BR>

between me , my cry , the sky  and God. <BR>

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And then I understood the beauty of it. When I came I was <BR>

somehow impatient that I had to wait until I could approach <BR>

and put my letter , but when I sensed the beauty of  pouring <BR>

the soul out to God I suddenly became patient and <BR>

waited there ,  afraid to  move or touch or disturb the young

girl.   <BR>

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I didn't move , I became a waiting stone myself , until a woman <BR>

noticed me and offered her place near the wall. <BR>

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Then I thought  to myself : yes , this is what man needs , <BR>

cry out his  soul , thoughts and feelings to a  stone wall, <BR>

to God , to a piece of wood , to the clouds , to something <BR>

that only listens and accepts and then man can go his way released.<BR>

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I've been thinking that a man can be also a good listener <BR>

to another man's pouring out one's soul when he behaves <BR>

like the earth .          <BR>

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