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SUMMARY:Sacred Text Reading Group (via Video Conference)
DESCRIPTION:Sacred Text Reading Group (via Video Conference)  \n\nA weekly 
 online sacred text reading group with Reverend Amy\n\nUsing a spiritual-pr
 actice approach\, in each session we will explore a different brief script
 ural text in depth. The aims of the sessions are educational (learning som
 ething about the texts and traditions)\, spiritual/moral (discovering what
  the texts ask of us)\, and community-building (getting to know each other
  better). There will be a version of the text available to share\; "bring"
  your own if you like. All are welcome\, as are your suggestions of future
  texts.\n\n\nOur text on Saturday\, August 1 is this passage from Ralph Wa
 ldo Emerson\, "Experience" (full essay here):\n\n\nPeople grieve and bemoa
 n themselves\, but it is not half so bad with them as they say. There are 
 moods in which we court suffering\, in the hope that here\, at least\, we 
 shall find reality\, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to b
 e scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me\, is 
 to know how shallow it is. That\, like all the rest\, plays about the surf
 ace\, and never introduces me into the reality\, for contact with which\, 
 we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers. Was it Boscovich wh
 o found out that bodies never come in contact? Well\, souls never touch th
 eir objects. An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and th
 e things we aim at and converse with. Grief too will make us idealists. In
  the death of my son\, now more than two years ago\, I seem to have lost a
  beautiful estate\, -- no more. I cannot get it nearer to me. If tomorrow 
 I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors\, the loss 
 of my property would be a great inconvenience to me\, perhaps\, for many y
 ears\; but it would leave me as it found me\, -- neither better nor worse.
  So is it with this calamity: it does not touch me: some thing which I fan
 cied was a part of me\, which could not be torn away without tearing me\, 
 nor enlarged without enriching me\, falls off from me\, and leaves no scar
 . It was caducous. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing\, nor carry me
  one step into real nature.\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n 	Join this class from yo
 ur Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/578882781\n 	Join this class using the Z
 oom app: Meeting ID: 578 882 781\n 	Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128
  US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 578 882 781\n 	Join this class by on-tap on m
 obile phones: +16699009128\,\,578882781# US (San Jose)\n 	Phoning in\, but
  not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clv
 IYT\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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