NEW THOUGHT WEEKLY
 
SUNDAY SEPT. 22 PROGRAM
 
Dawn Barnett: "Autumn: Recognizing the Teacher Within" is the topic for exploration into the "Four Fold Way" Dawn Barnett, R.N., C.H.T, will present the program framing the qualities of the "teacher" which is the autumn season archetype in the shamanic tradition.
 
The 10:00 a.m. Sunday service is held on the makai lanai at Pualani Terrace in Kealakekua on the makai side of Mamalahoa Hwy. (Rt.11) just south of Kamagaki Market. All are welcomed. For further information call 329-2222 or see our web-site at www.NTCHawaii.org. Childcare is provided.
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                                NEW THOUGHT CENTER OF HAWAII
    By providing a loving, accepting, non-judgmental community, we at NewThought Center of Hawaii create a sanctuary for the nourishment, development, and evolution of each person's unique spiritual path.
    The circle we sit in represents our inclusiveness and our equality. We have no minister. We take turns facilitating, and we minister to each other. In addition to sharing our own spiritual insights, we invite teachers from all wisdom traditions. We invite and honor such variety and in ourselves and in the world around us. We understand that no single source has exclusivity of spiritual truth, health and joy and that there is much to be learned from many of these sources.
    We gather every Sunday at 10 a.m. in Kealakekua at Pualani Terrace just south of the Kealakekua Library. You are invited to join the circle.                                                    Morty Breier pres. and board of NTCH.
 
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CONTENTS
 
- Sunday Sept. 22, 2002 program  ( Dawn Barnett-Autumn:Recognizing the teacher within )
- About New Thought Center of Hawaii
- Upcoming Programs   ( 5 )
- Humor  ( 
Humor of Steven Wright )
- Words of Wisdom/Quest for Quotes ( 
17 )
- White Board Wisdom  ( 
yes  )
- Worthy Websites ( shareware and freeware )
- Attachment  ( - )
- Raw  Food Recipe  ( 
Tomato celery soup / RAWZ potluck )
- Miscellaneous ( 
Not what it appears )
- Announcements ( 
4 )
- Personals ( - )
- Spiritual Message  ( 
Normal day )
- Affirmation ( yes )
- Reader Feedback  ( - )
- Editorial  ( - )
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:

- Sept. 29 Rabbi Mark Shapiro. "A taste of Jewish mystic thought :The creation of the world and  how we are part of the action." The Jewish mystics had a fascinating view of how God created space for the world to exist, an unexpected (?) cosmic accident, and its challenging aftermath. This concept is not just esoteric; it contains clear  everyday wisdom for  teachers, leaders and activists.
    Rabbi Mark Shapiro, who for the third year is serving as Congregation Kona Beth Shalom's High Holyday rabbi, is a Reform (Liberal) Rabbi from Chicago.  He served Congregation BJBE in Glenview Illinois for 38 years and became its rabbi emeritus in 2000.  Rabbi Shapiro is not a scholar in Jewish mysticism (Kabbala), but has looked for ways to relate its more basic teachings to the ongoing life of the Jewish community.

 
10/6 Karen Lepere " Relationships and Conciousness".
10/13 Don Choquette. Chinese Gong Meditation.
10/20  The Healing Power of Poetry and Music. Bring your favorite poem, story and song and perform it for other  New Thought members.
10/27 Mikahala Roy. Hawaiian traditions.
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HUMOR

THE HUMOR OF STEVEN WRIGHT
- Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
- Half the people you know are below average.
- 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
- 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
- I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
- A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
- If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
- All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.
- The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
- OK, so what's the speed of dark?
- How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
- Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.
- I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
- If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
- What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
- My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." 
- Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
- The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
- The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
- Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. 
                                                                                            Steven Wright Via David Holzman
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WORDS OF WISDOM / QUEST FOR QUOTES

- "A painting is never finished - it simply stops in an interesting place." Paul Gardner, painter
 
- "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you grow up."
                                                                                                                                                    Pablo Picasso
- "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,
you have learned how to live."                                                                                     Lin Yutang
 
- "The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won
than by the stories it loves and believes in."                                                   Harold Goddard

- "The time is always right to do what is right"             Martin Luther King, Jr. via Glenys Spitze
 
- "As much as we want to get the terrorists, we want to do it in a methodical way that preserves our freedoms."                          Newt Gingrich, 1966 after Atlanta Olympics bombing
 
- "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."                                           Thomas Jefferson
 
- "There is a greater fear in this country, and that is fear of our own government."
                                                                          Then Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. after the Oklahoma City bombing.
- "The United States is in the grip of metastasizing martial law."                       Gore Vidal
 
- "A sensible, bi-partisan resistance should work to rein in the president's understandable but ill-advised urge for more power to restore the balance between rights and security in the age of terrorism- even in an election year.                                                        LA Time editorial in WHT
 
- "In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?"             Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)

- "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."
                                                                                    James Allen, As A Man Thinketh via Larry Morningstar.
- "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to assume that I am here and you  are out there."                                                                                                                      Yasutani Roshi via Karen Lepere
- "My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
                                                                        William Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice (1898-1980)
- "The spirit is so near you can't see it. Reach for it. Don't be a jar of water whose rim is always dry.                                                                                                                                                                     Rumi
- "You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories."              Melanie Clark
 
- "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.                                         Robert Frost 
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WHITE BOARD WISDOM
Write your quotations on the NewThought WhiteBoard  which awaits your words
of wisdom at every NewThought SundayService. Share your own, or the words of others. 
 
- The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
- Today all creation is asking to dance.
- It will lead to dancing
- You can dance your dance.
- You can sit it out or dance.
- Pray that Mr.Bush (the great pretender) will wise up and "give peace a chance." John Lennon
- Imagine all the people
- Wisdom comes in a flash. Ignorance comes in a flood.
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WORTHY  WEBSITES
Every week in this section will appear one of the "50 Most Incredibly Useful Sites"  from"Yahoo/Internet Life" magazine's sixth annual list.
 
   A repository for a seemingly infinite number of shareware and freeware programs. No matter what capability you'd like to add to your computer, chances are you can find the software here to do it. Search by category. Ratings help find the best stuff. Hit the download button and you'll be ready to run within minutes.  www.download.com  
 
NEXT  WEEK:
    Check movie reviews. Just type in the film title and get a dozen reviews. 230,000 reviews of over 26,000 movies
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ATTACHMENT
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RAW FOOD RECIPE
 
    The September RAWZ raw food potluck will be held at the home of Manuel and Bernice Roberto on Sunday Sept. 22 at 1 p.m. at  77- 297 Wikolia St. Turn mauka on Lako St. (Chevron gas station),  right on Puulani, left on Wikolia. First house on the left.
For further information call 331-8059.
 
TOMATO CELERY SOUP
    Use food processor to liquefy 4 tomatoes.
    Cut 8 stalks of celery into 2 inch lengths and add to tomatoes.
    Process breifly leaving celery slightly coarse.
    Serve with lemon on the side.
                                            From "The High Energy Diet Recipe Guide" by Dr. Douglas Graham
 
"This type of diet is universally accepted as one that will help you reach your fullest health
potential while doing yourself and the environment the least possible harm." Dr. Douglas Graham
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MISCELLANEOUS
 
NOT WHAT IT APPEARS
    Lord...help me to remember that the jerk who cut me off in traffic last
night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and was rushing home
to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few moments
with her children.
    Bring to my mind that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who
can't make change correctly at the cash register is a worried 19-year-old
college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear
of not getting his student loans for next semester.
    Remind me, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot
every day, who really ought to get a job, is a slave to addictions that I
can only imagine in my worst nightmare.
    Cause me to reflect that the old couple, walking annoyingly slow through
the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this
moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week,
that this will be the last year that they go shopping together.
    Remind me each day that, of all the gifts you give me: good health, a good
job, family, dear friends, the greatest gift of all is truly love.
    It is not enough to share that love with those who are close to me, but to
and with all who I come in contact with.
    Let me be slow in judgment and quick with forgiveness, patience, empathy
and of course....love.                                    Via Glenys Spitze
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> - Big Island Chapter of Cetacean Nation and the Kona Dance Jam will host a benefit event and silent auction on Saturday, September 21 in Kealakekua at the KTPS Performance Cooperative, starting a 8 PM.
    This CETACEAN CELEBRATION on the full moon Autumn Equinox is intended raise money to protect whales and dolphins, particularly from the threat posed by the U.S. Navy's plan to deploy LFAS - Low Frequency Active Sonar. LFAS can disrupt critical Cetacean behavior, injure, and even kill.  The system is outdated as an effective defense system and blatantly misrepresented as safe by the Navy.
    Proceeds from the $10 entry fee will go towards an effort to increase public dialogue on the appropriate human/animal relationship and the need to achieve legal recognition for Cetaceans as sovereign citizens of Planet Ocean.
    There will be dancing and live music, featuring among others, songster Grady Keystone and his band from Honokaa, and internationally celebrated violin virtuoso, Tony Selvage from Mountain View.  There will also be a silent auction of goods and services from people in the community contributing to this important educational fund.  Come celebrate our island's special relationship with the whales and dolphins and our precious Planet Ocean with this meaningful event.
    The Performance Cooperative is located in Kealakekua, three doors down from the traffic light at 81-971 Haleki`i Street, directly across from the Corner Pocket.  Doors open at 8:00 and all are welcome to attend.  For more information please call Douglas Webster at 328-2050 or Pati Scamacca at 334-1998.            

- SOUL CONNECTION, September 25, 2002 6p.m.-8:30.  You are invited to a "Gathering of the Souls" circle: FACILITATOR: Phan Nguyen. PURPOSE: Through the Native- American council process,  participants will share personal stories and soul yearnings in the true spirit of  community and will emerge with a deep sense of connection-a soul connection. LOCATION: Temple for the Wandering Souls at East Hawaii Cultural Center. BRING: Drinking water, floor mat, and pillow WEAR: Comfortable clothing.

THE BIG ISLAND HEALING ARTS EXPO A Festival For Body, Mind & Spirit
Friday & Saturday ~ October 11 & 12, 2002  9 AM to 6 PM daily
OHANA KEAUHOU BEACH RESORT ~ KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII
Open to the Public. Free Admission. Experience the BEST Hawaii has to offer in Holistic Health, Personal Development, and Positive Living!

FREE MEDICAL INSURANCE FOR TEENS. Youths 18 or younger and pregnant women, in moderate to low income families who don't have medical coverage, may qualify for this free state sponsored QUEST medical program or Medicaid health insurance program. This "Children's Health Access to Medical Programs (CHAMP)"  provides regular checkups, emergency care, immunization, counseling, prescription medicines and dental care. For information call LaVerne at 934-3236, 331-8777, or 775-7206. _____________________________________________________________

PERSONALS:   
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SPIRITUAL MESSAGE
 
 Normal day
 Let me be aware of the treasure you are...
 Let me not pass you by
 in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
 One day I shall dig my nails into the earth,
 or bury my face in my pillow,
 or stretch myself taught,
 or raise my hands to the sky and want,
 more than all the world,
 your return.
                    Mary Jean Iron via Larry Morningstar
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AFFIRMATION
 
    Today I look deeply within myself. Anything that contradicts the peace of God I release.
I desire to live in the pure freedom of Spirit's peaceful atmosphere, and I act on that desire
by attuning myself to the liberating peace of my inner divine nature.
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READER FEEDBACK
 
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EDITORIAL

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