What Is Community?

Community is the evolutionary principle of our essential nature as "One"... this primal Unity is also an awakening into the enlightened awareness of our essential divinity...

Community is the recognition that an activated will to "remembrance" and "transformation" requires a network of intentional relationships... each of which acts to facilitate both, for the individual and the group as a whole... community is the activated intention to live daily in "service, surrender, and solidarity"...

Community is "Oneness" expanding out upon the lived experience of a Path: the Path is the practice of service: individually and as a group engaging in actions that give evidence of compassion: for those who suffer, for the well-being of creatures, and for the well-being of the Planet... the Path is the practice of surrender: individually and as a group engaging in the cultivation of adoration of the Divine and the practice of Beauty in a daily rhythm of mindfulness and meditation... the Path is the practice of solidarity: individually and as a group living in such a way that there is less and less of a divide between ideals and action, and living in concert with all those who struggle for equality, justice, kindness, peace, and the health and well-being of the Planet... 

Community is the building of networks of mutual aid and support... community is the co-creation of networks of alternative institutions (political, economic, cultural, educational, and religious): community is beginning to live the future we dream of for our children... community is the will to create effective alternatives to domination and violence... community is the will to practice gender equality and the will to equality between all peoples: community is the intention of tolerance, kindness, and compassion...

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