Today's Living Saints

[atman]

Lateley I am seeing what could be called living saints. If I look at the dmv lady behind the desk this way, I see she is pleasant and seeingly glad to be there. Helping. She takes a personal call, (It's a small town,) greets an elderly client and passes on her mothers concern for her welfare. She gives my nephew his new license and entreats me to make sure that he gets more practice soon. She cared. She did her job...with love. If more of us could find our bigger heart, wouldn't we be on our own way to being saints? Not in the traditional sense completely, but rather in a real world way. Just caring.

What is a saint?

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
- L. Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1966)
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[MagnetMan]

atman said:

Lateley I am seeing what could be called living saints. If I look at the dmv lady behind the desk this way, I see she is pleasant and seeingly glad to be there. Helping. She takes a personal call, (It's a small town,) greets an elderly client and passes on her mothers concern for her welfare. She gives my nephew his new license and entreats me to make sure that he gets more practice soon. She cared. She did her job...with love. If more of us could find our bigger heart, wouldn't we be on our own way to being saints? Not in the traditional sense completely, but rather in a real world way. Just caring.

Moving, atman.

[know knot]

atman said:

Lateley I am seeing what could be called living saints. If I look at the dmv lady behind the desk this way, I see she is pleasant and seeingly glad to be there. Helping. She takes a personal call, (It's a small town,) greets an elderly client and passes on her mothers concern for her welfare. She gives my nephew his new license and entreats me to make sure that he gets more practice soon. She cared. She did her job...with love. If more of us could find our bigger heart, wouldn't we be on our own way to being saints? Not in the traditional sense completely, but rather in a real world way. Just caring.

First of all, hello atman.

I've also had beautiful little moments like this one. And yes, i think if we could open ourselves up, cast away our crude shells and open our hearts and arms we could all become such real world saints such as you describe.

knot

[fay]

dont you think that is part of compassion. every one should have compassion. if every one did the world would be a better place. also love has a part in it. i would call it expressing compassion and love for the fellow human.

[Kwan Yu]

DMV.
Good place to train saints

[soulatom]

Nice post Atman. Reminded me that I overlook these little moments of grace too often. Need to be more there in the moment to pick up on the subtleties of the higher consciousness at work in our daily lives. Guess that is why some people seem more blessed. It's not that they get a special nod from the angels it's that they're tuned in enough to give one.

Gotta go think about saintly behavior now.....

[piper]

Here's one that I think we'll hear more about.

excerpt by Mike Gibson

As someone who grew up thrilling to his Sunday night derring-do on TV's Wild Kingdom, I was intrigued by the prospect of getting to know Stan Brock, and of pulling aside the mask of dragon-slaying invincibility perpetually worn by this man who, to many Generation X-ers, was something of a real-life superhero.

And Brock is still an adventurer, albeit a somewhat less heralded one; he considers his lower-profile work in Knoxville the most important endeavor of his life (he often wryly refers to his 17-year pursuit of a television and movie career as "the Frivolous Years.")

As founder in 1985 of the Remote Area Medical non-profit medical relief corps, Brock with the help of other RAM volunteers has brought free medical care—including everything from basic dentistry to critical surgical procedures—to more than a quarter-million people the world over, in locales ranging from prosaic Cleveland, Tenn., to the primitive outlying villages of what is now the Independent Republic of Guyana.

RAM is headquartered in an old South Knoxville school building, leased through Knox County for $1 year; the organization's DC3 transport airplane stationed at Island Home Airport is leased from an Ohio-based philanthropist for the same price.
And other than RAM Foundation Director Karen Wilson (responsible for the organization's fund raising efforts) and a part-time bookkeeper, RAM has no paid employees, not even Brock himself.

"One of the disappointments is that after all these years, nobody knows about us," Brock says a little wistfully. "We don't have a PR department, and we don't go looking for publicity. We're a well-kept secret.

[johnb1]

I don't Know Who really are those People honestly But I'm Beginning to read about their goods stuffs. (^^,) Here a song for the TOPIC

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