Some 20 years ago I spent much time with a small group of German friends working on direct communication. With heart.

What you say, Suz, and how, somehow reminds me of those encounters. In any case, it is calming and reassuring to read your words.

Our meetings could be trying -- the demand was that we each and all be completely present. And each, completely at one with his/her word. But the breakthroughs sometimes felt well-nigh miraculous.

By that I mean that I can find no words for when all fell silent and we stepped out of time.

I wish you could tell me more about the passages in Chinese medicine from which you are quoting; but recently I have somehow overcome shyness to deliver friends a very similar message... about moving away from what we are not, and towards what we truly are.

That message is simple enough, but... simple is not easy.