BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18469@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260815T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260815T170000 DTSTAMP:20260815T220744Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2-2026-08-15/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Force of Character— Hillman DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Force of Character— Hillman An e xploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a differ ent short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturd ays\, 4-5. All are wide open and you are welcome to come weekly or once in a while.\n\n\nThe reading for this session:\nSaturday (8/15 at 4PM)\n\nSo me of what I mean by "force of character" is the persistence of the incorr igible anomalies\, those traits you can't fix\, can't hide\, and can't acc ept. Resolutions\, therapy\, conversion\, the heart's contrition in old ag e–nothing prevails against them\, not even prayer. We are left realizing that character is indeed a force that cannot succumb to willpower or be r eached by grace. The force of its flaws mocks all the virtuous books\, who se efforts to enlighten are candles in the wind. … Character forces me t o encounter each event in my peculiar style. It forces me to differ. I wal k through life oddly. No one else walks as I do\, and this is my courage\, my dignity\, my integrity\, my mortality\, and my ruin.\n—James Hillman \, The Force of Character and the Lasting Life\, © 1999\, p. 181\n\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and th e respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and co nverse\, are as important as the reading itself. While many small groups b egin with a check-in\, with a session only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those who are new will so on find they are among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, pos ting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Sug gestions for readings* come from group members\, who also take turns facil itating\, if they want to try that role.\n\n\n \;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\ n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 198 5 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting I D: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +166990091 28\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?   Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zo om link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar an d click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-r eading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme impo rtance to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically ourselves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR