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Thank you. in From Stress to Happiness a documentary film, American monk Steindl-Rast, 92 says, 'you don't have enough energy to be distrustful...it is a waste of energy. Just imagine, if you don't trust life the worst has already happened. You have so many reason to trust life. If somebody says, ok, digest your breakfast...even the scientists don't know the things that are necessary to digest a cup of coffee." "Life gives you moment by moment a world. I have to give an answer to this world. What does life want from me...In other cases not so easy....To listen to what life wants and to respond. and when you really stop and listen you find that life most of the time is giving you energy, and you learn how beautiful the sunshine, yes I have troubles. I can breathe. (other's can't) Life gives this to you." When catastrophe struck a new tragectory began, new learning. Many options became available. Real friends. If we are alive we can do. Indigenous people have many of the solutions for climate - we can listen. Turn away from the 'big brassy light' and I am not speaking from a know it all way because learning comes each day, often in dreams, in places we didn't look.

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