I found this to be a beautiful and inspirational piece. LINK I am so grateful that things are going so well. Time will tell. Regardless, our world can only benefit from thinking such as the Dalai Lama shares. One of the best things that I have taken away from the last 18 months of time spent researching the possible effects of y2k is, that the world is full of truly wise and ethical human beings and I feel far more hopeful and directed than I ever have. Thank you to all of you. I have learned so much about myself and the world from every single person posting on this board.

Maybe it's the relief and maybe what I am feeling truly exists. What I am speaking of is a feeling that came over me during the day of New Year's Eve. As I watched country after country ring in the New Year I felt as well as saw the hope, love, goodwill and optimism being felt across the globe. The feeling still is with me. So even as I wake to the daily challenges of my life and the uncertainty that comes with life, I feel lifted to meet the course!

-- Diane R (starkrav@kdsi.net), January 03, 2000

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Sorry, thought I did it correctly.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/302905.asp

-- Diane R (starkrav@kdsi.net), January 03, 2000.

The Dalai Lama has a seedy past. I will expand
on this topic at any email request.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 03, 2000.

It is inspirational, Diane. I still am "guardedly optimistic" about how the y2k situation will unfold, but this sense of wonder and "aloha" that you describe is with me, too.

The Dalai Lama's words:

"...My call for a spiritual revolution is thus not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow other-wordly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather, it is a call for a radical reorientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self. It is a call to turn towards concern for the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others interests alongside our own."

What a goal for humanity. It speaks to the spiritual heart of all religions. What possibility exists if we *could* all embrace this spirit?

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), January 03, 2000.