
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="line-height: 41pt;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:

none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">Some, like our immune systems, are

intelligent<i class=""> </i>boundaries that recognize what we need and what we don’t,

allowing in food and water and defending against toxins and microbes.</span><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:

none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">Before we can open to the “other”

we must feel safe in our own skin. This requires becoming flexible, not rigid;

present, not aloof; and engaged but not overly porous. When we can relax our

armoring and feel secure with who we are, then our walls can become </span><i style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">permeable</i><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">

boundaries which support true exchanges of the I and the Thou.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:

none;text-autospace:none"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 18.5pt;" class="">Walls protect and walls limit. It

is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the

consequence of blowing your own trumpet.” </span></i><i class=""><span style="font-size: 18.5pt;" class="">― Jeanette Winterson</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:

none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">What is the difference between

beneficial and harmful walls? What is trust? Can we dismantle the

dysfunctional ones but respect the helpful ones? How could this help us in the

grand project of healing the soul of the world?</span></p><div style="line-height: 41pt;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>