Now is the time here in this place

All combatants act from grace

The battle joined action noble

Fighting generates deeper trouble

Breach created push and shove

Can we show what we’re made of

Character true character real

Displays in how you teach and heal

Fierce fight fought to the wire

No real winner no one to retire

Combating through venue changes

Players and thinking rearranges

Can we learn from winter’s long night

Will body politic do better than fight

Energy expended in a silly fray

Surely better spent in a new way

Winner and loser very old frame

Time to play a bigger game

This might be collaboration

As the pulse of a great nation

We have tools technology

To approach real democracy

If we do in this century

Many more will say I’m free

Do you interact with people who have political views different from yours?

What do you learn from them and is there a way to be more curious and empathetic with different people?

– Stewart Levine ©

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Stewart Levine

I have always been a seeker, always looking for the answers to what seekers ponder. I can remember Dr. Maxwell Maltz and Psychocybernetics; Dr. Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person. Moving through my legal training and practicing law the focus was always about people and how to better their lives. All that searching, reading, studying and introspective work culminated in this collection of daily readings for seekers.

My work in the world has progressed from fighting legal cases to mediating divorces to helping people understand the essentials of relationship and collaborating to these poems. How can we collaborate effectively and work with each other in harmony to create the world we seek. How can we mindfully enable this world to become a place that works for all.

My prayer is that through introspection using these poems as a guide we can all grow together in making the world the Heaven on Earth we all aspire toward.

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