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<P>DATE:</B> September 10, 2006<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Rio Rancho, NM,
USA<BR><B>T/R:</B> Gerdean </P><B>
<P>Music:</B> Elena on Piano: "I Need Thee Every Hour"</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> I like what she plays. I love that, getting the transcripts and
hearing what she played and what everybody said. It's so neat to be with the
people that we read about in the transcripts.</P>
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<P align=center>TEACHER SESSION</P>
<P align=center>The Art of Living</P></B><B>
<P>JESUS:</B> I AM the Son of I AM. You know me as Jesus, your Creator Son. In
other worlds I am known as Michael, Master Son. Under any circumstances, I am
your friend and elder brother, and one with God, as is your potential also. </P>
<P>In our oneness, as fellows -- as fellows in His great and mysterious universe
-- let us bow before Him together in gratitude of His gift of life and the
creativity that springs forth from His generous and ever-abundant essence into
us as His creations, in order that we may convey to all we see, the wonder of
His love and the glory of His creation. </P>
<P>Thanksgiving is our pastime as we take the consciousness of our divine Father
and the infinite Mother into ourselves and see it reflected in those we meet.
Let us who serve Him commingle in adoration and in obedience to His divine
Way.</P>
<P>I look upon you here faithful students of truth, friends of beauty, family of
goodness and it swells my heart to overflowing with love for you, as is my
pleasure. </P>
<P>Let us hear from your Teachers and engage consciously with them in
furtherance of divine understanding and infinite joy. I am with you
always.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Greetings, friends. This is Tomas. I am honored to be again in
your midst, to greet you from near and far, and to be given this platform of
broadcasting good news throughout the realm. Welcome home, Carl and Janet.
Welcome Wally and JOYce from Arizona. It pleases me no less than it pleases you
to enjoy this marvelous camaraderie in the spirit.</P>
<P>I would like to spend some time today talking about the Art of Living. I
could not help but observe, through the music and through dance, how the balance
of opposing sides are able to come together to create harmony when and as effort
is applied in the creating of the Art of Living. </P>
<P>The left and right hands of the pianist each carrying on its own independent
melody or harmony or chords, are somehow interwoven in and through the efforts
of the pianist to follow the guidance of the composer. The same [holds true] in
dance, [with] the male and female as a <I>pas de deux</I>, each gliding and
stepping according to the dictates of the movement, the feet and the feeling
imposed through the music, through the orchestration provided by the
composer/conductor of the music.</P>
<P>These simple exercises involving duality represent a similar pattern to you
each when you engage in finding a balance between your divine nature and your
material needs, the spirit and the flesh, as it were. And while many struggle in
an attempt to avoid the one in order to embrace completely the other, it is he
or she who has the wit and stamina to engage in both at once that create the art
of living. </P>
<P>Adjutants, the mind spirits circuits of the Mother, are infused into your
being, enabling you to perceive sensitivities that will enable you to play your
instrument or do your dance within yourself, bringing balance to your system and
harmony to your soul. And when you are sensitive to these circuits, you can hear
the divine guidance overtaking the lure of the physical life and harmonizing it
with the spiritual life that is brought to you by and through the spirit of
truth, the gift of the Son. You cannot escape this duality, this harmony. </P>
<P>And when you become family, when each of you as a whole becomes part of a
greater whole, you then as a group need to learn how to upstep the art of living
to incorporate those others. </P>
<P>When a pianist plays in a concert or a recital with none other there, each
note is highlighted and the performance is critically observed. When a piano
plays with an orchestra, it is still critical that it plays on key and in tempo,
but it has now become a part of a larger organism. And each one must play
accordingly their parts in order for each individual instrument to become a
harmonious part of the whole.</P>
<P>The same with dancing. One couple on the ballroom floor is able to take your
breath away with their swooping and swirling, but when there are other couples
on the floor, it is essential that the couples modify their comportment such as
to allow for those swirling energies of other couples in their midst lest there
be mayhem on the floor. </P>
<P>And the same thing holds true within yourself as an individual when you try
to be too many people or try to do too many things at once, you stumble all over
your own feet and as you as individuals attempt to work in harmony with others,
you often struggle for position and vie for attention such that it makes it very
difficult for the rest of the people involved in the group to function
harmoniously as a working group. </P>
<P>And yet, civilization is a working group. And so, the art of living must be
learned each day in each new configuration, and each configuration impacts on
the whole and such is the way of evolution. It advances or regresses or hovers
in a status quo position until such time as the divine Way is found and the
participants, being sensitive to the direction of the Conductor, the Composer,
the Creator, allow that Higher Power to instigate the energy in the instant it
needs in order for order to return to the situation, alleviating the chaos and
entering into a mutually beneficial organism with movement. </P>
<P>Yes, Gerdean. She wants me to say, "Like a Zooid." (Group chuckles) Precisely
like a zooid colony yes, that can do things after it learns how to work with the
other component parts. But until such time as the component parts are able to
work compatibly with each other, there is simply a bunch of independent cells
bumping into one another without the consciousness to appropriately grasp the
configuration that would bring about the most effective results for all
concerned. </P>
<P>It is at this point we are in our growth -- in our growth as a group, as a
movement, as a planetary progression -- learning to work effectively as a group
in God-consciousness. Only as we can learn to work effectively together will
anything of substance be accomplished for the new dispensation. </P>
<P>It is natural that in your ambitions to advance, you bring with you what you
know has worked for you in the past. Each of you bring your strengths and your
solutions, but remember they have been the strengths and solutions that have
worked for you as an individual, and they will need to be modified to
accommodate the burgeoning reality of community. </P>
<P>Along with this consciousness will come a need for you to rewrite your
programs. Not to erase the one that works for you as an individual, but to
modify yours as individuals in order to accommodate the whole. The challenges
inherent are overwhelming to many of you. Like going into a new job or attending
a new school can be exciting and frightening, such is entering into a new
epochal plane of reality, in terms of the art of living.</P>
<P>Right now everyone has collapsed on the dance floor in chaos, having stumbled
over the feet of even your own partners, even your own self. Some people are
doing a tango while some are doing the waltz. Some are playing ragtime and some
are playing gospel. It will take some time to hear the Voice of the Conductor
that knows the Score, that will help you find your place in the Choir, that will
set you aright into your Field of Dreams, that will allow you to feel the Art of
Living in Yourself and in synch with Others. </P>
<P>And that's when the Fun begins. That's when the real effects of our teachings
can take hold. That's when you can learn to trust one another because you can
see how things click, not this incessant view of how things don't. And then
eventually <I>and soon</I> comes the delight, the frivolity of the dance and the
doing of it, the Joy in Living. This is our aim and it is within our reach. </P>
<P>If you remember to take your instructions from the Highest Source, all will
become clear. You will find out who serves whom and in what capacity, who has
experiential wisdom worth watching, who has something to teach and who has
something to learn. </P>
<P>All of this is enwrapped in the art of living -- in the art of living with
God-consciousness, not as a sanctimonious or self-righteous reality, but as a
well-grounded and practical approach to living the life here, now, on your
world, and in your time, in company with your peers, both human and divine.
There is no hurry to go somewhere else. We are here for the duration. Let us
make the best of it. Let us infuse our spirits into every moment, into "every
hour," and create this reality as a result of the art of living…love. </P><B>
<P align=center>Discussion Period</P></B>
<P><B>MERIUM:</B> This is Merium. I am here also. Just wanted to let you know
you have a full house this afternoon in both arenas. We are looking in. A number
of visitors are here and we are enthralled as always with your efforts to step
up to the plate and play ball. Put me in coach, I'm ready to play.</P>
<P>I haven't got a story for you today, but I'm sure you have some for us, so
let's hear it.</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> Can I speak?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Yes!</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> Well, first of all, (weeping) I really want to thank Tomas because
I never knew until today how much being involved all these years in dancing …
it's like all of a sudden I see I've been in training to be a part of this
working together. You know? Like, all your life you want to be a part of it. You
want to be a part of all of this that's happening. And all of a sudden I
realize, just with the dancing, we've been in training on just how to work with
one another, how to learn. </P>
<P>We all arrive there; we don't know what in the world's going to happen to us.
And I see this. I see God working with the Teachers to create these beautiful
pieces of music and dance art and they just keep getting harder and harder, so
everybody is arriving there like apprehensively, almost like, "What are they
going to do to us this time?" And you just hope you make it, but we've had
enough training -- miraculously -- we always make it. It keeps getting harder
and we somehow make it through.</P>
<P>And when Tomas was talking I could just hug him and kiss him because I see
this training we've been in to be able to work with one another. We're all this
big group, 100 couples and all dancing and coming together and learning, and
some are going this way and some are going that way, and it's like it is with
the Urantia and the TeaM and some are going this way and some are going that
way, and you think "Is this going to come together and is it going to work?"
</P>
<P>And darn it, today I could just relate it to the dancing. At the end, there
we were, they put it on one more time and we were all floating around and we
were all doing it. And that's going to happen with all this stuff. All this
stuff with the church and all this stuff with the TeaM. I'm just so graced out.
I know this is going to work. This is just all gonna work. I just know it's
going to work. And I'm so happy! Hello, Merium, too. </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I wanted to tell you, Child, that Jesus is sitting here nodding
his head. He is so pleased that you got it. Like Helen Keller putting together
the gesture with the word, the object: water, chair, grass, dress. It is all a
symbol of a concept and the Teachers' lessons are the concepts put to words.
Tomas is moved to hear your praise, but more so to hear that you got it.</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> I did! I got it. Whew!</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Anatolia would call that "a French fry moment." (Group
chuckles)</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> I'm so happy! So happy.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> We are thrilled. It is typical that you, all of you, are given a
piece of information and it registers and it becomes a part of your belief
system and you express it and even live by it, but that does not mean you have
had that "Aha!" moment that connects it to a cosmic dimension of reality such as
has happened here today with you, Child. The material world is a symbol of the
spiritual world, and so you have put together the symbol and the concept to see
the bigger Reality. It is dizzying, is it not? It is the morontia dimension.
That is our aim. </P>
<P>Imagine all of these people on the dance floor operating in a morontia sense
of reality, how thrilling it would be, each one in complete faith of each step
they take and each partner they engage with and each neighboring couple on the
floor. Such a tremendous peace, such an effusion of confidence and trust! Such
sublime security. It gives me pleasure to extend your appreciation into the
ethers, that it might serve to provide yet another springboard of comprehension
to someone somewhere that helps portray our goal with you as members of the
Teacher Corps.</P>
<P>Naturally we expect you to pass the test and teach others when our course has
finished, but that shan't be today. (Good! Thank God.) So let's carry on. As if
I had access to "The Red Shoes" what else shall we discuss? </P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> I had a question when he was speaking and it was as I was getting
it. I was going "Wow. This is so great. I got it." Then I thought, "How do I
relate what I got with the dancing relating to 'this is all going to work'
'we're all going to get it' 'it's going to take a little time, just like it
does; can't do it in a weekend.' How do I apply it to everything else,
everything else in my life?" That was my question, but now I have the answer.
</P>
<P>It's the same with Marty and Gerdean and all this. It's perfect! I have a
part and I keep meeting with the other people that have the parts and it keeps
going together. It's really -- It's going to work and everything, if you get it.
</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> It is also true that you must have and recognize and follow up
with your responsibility. You are not going to be carried. (No.) You need to
discipline yourself and maintain your health. You have to have the stamina and
the will to perform and to meet these challenges. It is not done for you. You
are thus rewarded by the development of your own soul's reality. This is the
exciting thing about the ascension plan. It is not like it is all handed to you.
And this is, of course, what many are lamenting! They like the idea of the
pearly gates and the eternal bliss. But those of you who are rugged
individualists, who have an appreciation for the challenge of learning new
things and mastering yourselves and circumstances, really do find merit/value in
the ascension plan as it is set forth by our Creator that allows you to be
constantly striving in order to know constant accomplishment. This is
co-creation. </P>
<P>It does take some fancy footwork, however, to lure the wallflowers onto the
dance floor. Only by your ability to show them how much fun you're having and
radiate your good cheer are you able to manifest the contagious element that
they might want to join in. And when you perceive that someone wants to join in,
play the game, learn the dance, take up an instrument … here is your challenge
and opportunity also … to become a teacher, a coach and a mentor to those who
come behind you. </P>
<P>And this is a universe law. You must pass it on. You don't just throw it over
your shoulder glibly, but actually plant the seed, nurture it, foster it,
encourage it, water it, and allow it the confidence that it can grow up to be
excellent. It is this encouragement that we hope to provide, that is so
invigorating for all life. All life needs sunshine and water and good growing
conditions. You who have grown know something about good growing conditions and
you can teach these things to those who would follow after you. They may not
want to follow you in your pursuit of excellence, but the lessons, nonetheless,
are the same. The values are there -- the principles, the concepts -- as we
discussed, as you pointed out, JOYce, the standard is spiritual. The actualizing
is physical. The standard can hold for any venture, thus you can teach any
student. </P>
<P>Yes, this does open up your avenues of opportunity. It would be silly to
think that all you can offer someone is what you have physically mastered, when
now you see it is in the comprehension of what it takes to master and how that
mastery is reflected in the greater reality that gives food for thought for all
mankind, for it is from the Father's table, from the great Creator Himself.
[Tape ended.] It would seem we are on cue. What else?</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Well, I have a question. What if you want to sit out a few dances?
</P><B>
<P>MERIUM: </B>You don't have to dance <I>at all!</P></I><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Well, I'm not saying that. </P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> It's not allowed. Your partner won't let you. You know, we are
partnered with God! That's so way cool. He is very-- If you want to sit out, He
says, "Okay!" and when you want to dance again, He's ready to go dance again.
It's just hitting me so powerfully why this can't not work! If everybody is
partnered with God -- everybody, everywhere, whether they know it or not -- and
He's letting some of them sit it out. Sit out the dance. But He's just waiting
'til you partner in. And how can it not all work when He's really partnered with
everybody? You know? It's so incredibly awesome! The whole idea. Why did it take
me so long to figure this out? It was Tomas. Thank you, Tomas. </P>
<P>You know what's … what I said to Gerdean earlier about the perfection of it.
Here I am coming off the weekend -- it's not just a coincidence -- so that I
would have this and realize when he says something like, "Well, you're not going
to have it handed…" Thirty years we've been chunking this out! Nothing got
handed to us, not one step! And I've said this -- How many times have I said
this? -- every darned step I learned it took me twice as hard as everybody else,
because I don't learn easily. So now that I have it, and I'm at this place, I
worked darn hard for it, but now when I relate it to everything that's ahead, I
can do it because I already did this. I already mastered something that was
really tough. And I took 30 years of stick-tuitiveness so if the next 30 years
is 30 more years to get to wherever we're going to go, <U>I</U> <U>know</U>
<U>I</U> <U>can</U> <U>do</U> <U>it</U>! I don't have a minute's doubt that I
can't do it now. And it all came together in this. </P>
<P>And yet, I had to get here, since I heard about it and the possibility that
it was on the same weekend as the dance, there was a part of me that said, "You
have to be there!" I knew something was going to connect. I knew it. And I knew
it was now. The student was ready for the connection. I'm so darned happy. I
feel like we can fly home; we don't need to buy gas (Group laughter) for our
car. Just get in and go. And he knows this, too. He said, "Don't worry about the
trip, honey. Just keep me awake." He's got eight hours non-stop. This woman's
going to go "blitherblitherblitherblither" all the way home. Eight hours home,
right? You don't care, right? No, he doesn't care. Oh, I'm so happy.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> What did you have in mind to do, Elena, that you would opt not to
participate?</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> She doesn't want to dance.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I think you might be misunderstanding my point. If we equate it
otherwise and say all of us are in the Melchizedek University, some students
haven't registered yet, but eventually they will end up going to school, some
are in higher education, and all of the students are in one class or another
learning something. Some are learning dance; some are learning piano. And this,
too, is part of the art of living because there is divine order. </P>
<P>When you say you want to sit one out, I can equate that to your saying, "I'm
getting out of music for a couple semesters. I want to try psychology, or
physics, or public speaking," but you cannot just quit living. Something will go
on, whether you are enrolled in a class or not. And there is always summer.
There are always built-in periods of time when you are not striving, which are
an essential part of the curriculum as well. Rest is something that is almost
unheard of in this culture. It is required almost that when you rest you still
be doing something. And so to "sit one out" may be a wise idea, but that is not
the same as quitting. It is taking another elective in the course.</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> I'm just tired.</P><B>
<P>Esmeralda:</B> Elena has a very full plate. I don't think she means that
she's quitting anything. She just needs a little more rest.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> She has always maintained overdrive. (Group chortles) It stands
to reason that a day would come when a spark plug would go on the fritz and she
would stall out. I have every confidence that she is not done driving. But
perhaps a little time in the garage (Yeah!) or parked along side of the road
where you can throw breadcrumbs to the ducks or listen to the birds, read a book
or listen to salsa music at the neighbor's would be a good idea. </P>
<P>This type of reflectivity and "down time" is invaluable and I think you'll
find it is a required course as well, for no one can continue to forge uphill
incessantly without taking a break. It is not expected of anyone, only in the
eternal sense. And always there are plateaus upon which you can rest and encamp
until such time as you are invigorated to renew the ascent. </P>
<P>I commend the idea of taking some time off for you to reevaluate your life
plan for yourself, where you are today, where you've been, what you've done, and
what you still would like to do in the perspective of life as you understand it.
That is not what I call "sitting one out," it is simply turning the page.
</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> Yeah. What I'm feeling right now is that there is a lot of kind of
negative feelings inside me because I feel totally frustrated with the inability
to keep up with the demands I put on myself, etc., and I feel the need to take a
break and "sit one out" is the phrase that kind of came with the dancing theme.
You know? I'm tired of dancing for awhile.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Elena:</B> I really am tired of dancing. I've been going at it. I mean, we're
not talking about a low tempo. Okay, let's do a slow dance and then let's-- It's
just been rock and roll for … I mean not just one dance! It's been continual.
And I'm feeling frustrated because there is a lot of negative stuff/feelings
inside of me and then I feel like this is projecting into-- Okay, my thoughts
create my world and my future and they're negative thoughts right now. And these
little tapes that I play against people, I mean my emotions are kind of in a bad
place, so I think it really is just that I'm tired. I am unable right now to
deal with anything. I need to cool my jets. Basically "park it for awhile" is an
excellent phrase, I think. But that's a little difficult to do, but that's how I
need to work out.</P>
<P>That's why Tomas' lesson to me, too, was very helpful, because his lesson in
how to deal with the art of living right now actually spoke very much to how I
was going to be able to do that, so in a different sense, it kind of clicked to
me, so yeah, I still have to work with other people and keep going. And I agree
with you, very much, that you don't just sit one out because it keeps on going;
you can't do that. So, how I'm choreographed, this down town is going to be a
little tricky, but I think it's doable. </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I have only one remark and then Tomas would like to speak with
you. My remark is that you have been doing a polka marathon.</P><B>
<P>Elena: </B>Right. That's true! It actually is! (Chuckles)</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> We've done that, too. I go through a marathon every year! And how
I come is like, "Wow, I worked for 30 years and here I am (blah blah blah)." I
never thought about taking time out, skipping a dance or two, but I'd like to
have a nickel for the times that I quit dancing and wasn't coming back, no way
was I ever going to do that again. No way was I ever going to put myself through
that again, and then how many times I've had to eat my words and go back and do
it because I found the alternative was kind of boring. </P>
<P>So when I sat a dance out for a little bit, when I got on overload, which
happened many times, I found out I didn't like sitting it out that much. So I
took it, and I took it by quitting. "I'm outta here! I quit!" And then I'd come
back and I'd come back and each time I came back, I feel strengthened. So if you
would sit out a dance or two, you would find out you would come back to more of
probably the same thing you are doing now that got you to this place, which
sounds insane. That's how we are! You'll come back more focused, more able to do
more than you did before you took time out. But why we do that, I don't know. I
haven't figured it out. There's something in us; I can't figure it. It's
insane.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> There are two different themes going here. That is not unusual,
but it requires two responses. I find what you are saying, Elena, to be a result
of another conductor than the Master Conductor. I feel you are suffering the
effects of an artificial environment. And to some extent the one JOYce is
talking about is an artificial environment, but it is driven for different
reasons. Your environment, in the main, Elena, is the working world and it is on
overdrive for sure. And it seems to pick up its pace each fiscal year, and each
new generation coming in burns out their carburetor attaining maximum function,
and the corporate reality of today will take every piston pump it can get. </P>
<P>You have reached an age, a point in your life, perhaps, where you are not
interested in racing the NASCAR track but would rather enjoy a third-gear
cruise, and you have a right to pick and choose your pace. That is the thing
about "the fast lane" -- if you don't keep up with the fast lane, you get pushed
off the road and run over. It is fortunate that there are other highways and
byways than the fast lane for those who love to drive and for those who want to
go somewhere. For eventually we all like to see a different scene. </P>
<P>The ambition, however, that you speak of, JOYce, reminds me more of the
challenges inherent in the ascent which are imposed on evolving mortals and
which Jesus demonstrated through his apostles time and again. He would lift them
up and they would feel exalted, only to be brought down to base reality,
whereupon they would feel they had landed splat. And once they gathered their
resources, they stood up ready to go again, again to be lifted up and then go
splat and then stand up and trudge some more. </P>
<P>This is a part of the growth process that you might understand as "the anvil
of experience." You think that only when you are exalted you are in the art of
living but this is not the case, for learning how to fail graciously and get up
and continue on in faith of a perpetually advancing and revealing outcome is
also a part of the fortitude and steadfastness that will be your reward for
sticking to it. And naturally the joy of the dance itself is its own reward, as
is the spirit life you life, the purpose-driven life in the spirit. It is it's
own reward.</P>
<P>Not to say that sitting along side the lake on a lazy afternoon doing nothing
isn't also a reward, particularly for someone like you, Elena, who has worked so
hard, so fervently for so long. Just redefine "perfectionism."</P><B>
<P>Paula:</B> Can I say something? I admire so much people who can do the things
that I can't. Music or dancing. Those are talents that are just wonderful and I
admire them. I guess the only thing that I could say I had a talent for was
youngsters, and when they were growing up our house was always home to a flock
of kids. And when my son was growing up and was in his teens, the difficult
teens, the Boy Scouts that he belonged to lost their place where they could meet
and they finally came and met at our house in the dining room because you could
shut the door.</P>
<P>And he'd say ahead of time, "Now, you know, Mom, the girls are going to watch
what we're doing and mess around." I said, "Never mind. The door will be shut
and you'll be very private to have your meeting." Well, that was all very well
and good but my daughter was a smart little cookie so she decided that that was
the time to bake cookies (group twittering) and the smell went under the door,
and afterwards Bill said, "She did that on purpose!" And I said, "Well, that
could be," but anyway the boys managed to all grow up and everything was fine.
</P>
<P>And the one boy who was my special pet was Bob Krebbs and during his time in
the Army (he was in Korea) and he met a girl that he really fell in love with
and he told her that when the war was over he was coming back to get her, and of
course she didn't really believe this because that was the line that all the
boys were telling the girls if they just wanted to sleep with them for awhile,
you know, and that was all well and good; they were a long way from home and …
other women … but Bob really meant it! </P>
<P>And when the war was over, darned if he didn't go back and he found Yung Cha
again and he married her over there and they came back and, of course, one of
the places they came to was our house, and Yung Cha and I became very close and
she said, years later, she said, "You know, you were the first person who meant
anything to me because I knew that you liked me right away." And I said, "Yung
Cha, I just loved you," and she was <I>so</I> far from home. And we have stayed
friends over the years and I was lucky enough to see her when we were back home
on our vacation. Bob made the trip to my son's house in New Jersey along with
Yung Cha and I got to see her again.</P>
<P>And so, I don’t have any talents like you girls (group objections) </P><B>
<P>Thoroah:</B> She keeps forgetting the apple pie. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You are the backbone of civilization. Without you and women and
men like you, there would be no dancing and playing music. We must have
civilization to foster these cultural activities. Otherwise, we are barbarians.
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<P>A remark about the girl making cookies when the Boy Scouts were in the other
room, to say that you have an adage that "boys will be boys." I tell you that
"girls will be girls!" (Group laughter) They know that they can lure a fellow by
food.</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And this is an appropriate use of your adjutants, so you are
living in the Mother's presence and there is no more blessed place than that. It
is the nurturing that provides for the world. There is a lot to be said for "Mom
and Apple Pie." </P>
<P>I think it is time for us to call it a day. I know that you all have
independent agendas and it has been a full repast for us. I am glad to have been
here and glad for your being here, too, because without you who would I teach?
</P><B>
<P>Elena</B>: We're so grateful for everybody who came. Thank you so much. And
for the wonderful information and lessons you provided.</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> Tomas is my favorite teacher. I had to say it. I just love him to
pieces.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I will consider that a shiny red apple.</P><B>
<P>JOYce:</B> Oh, I just mean that. I love them all, don't get me wrong. The
other guys, if they're listening. But I just love him to pieces. I just grow. He
has fantastic one-liners that just leap out at me.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> This one will be routine but it is also heartfelt. I love you
truly, each and every one of you. Amen and farewell.</P>
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