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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="3" width=200 BGCOLOR="#999966" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> §</div> <div> <B>Body</B></div> <div> <B>Mind</B></div> <div> <B>Spirit</B></div> <div> §</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:emily.pierce@mchsi.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:emily.pierce@mchsi.com"><U><B>Contact Me</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Community</B></div> <div> <B>Store</B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=115 BGCOLOR="#999966" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Sentient Spirit </div> <div>                                        Body <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" >§</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" > </FONT>Mind <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" >§</FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Spirit</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=345 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="01071690.jpg" border=0 width="113" height="105" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    </FONT><B>Sentient - being conscious or self aware. </B> </div> <div> <B>    </B>People, it seems, are sleeping en masse these days; Completely oblivious to all that happens outside their tiny sphere of existence.  </div> <div>     Never has there been a more appropriate time to wake up, shake off the dust of complacency, and see the world through new eyes.  </div> <div>     Many people hate that which they fear, and fear that which they do not understand.  This is a powerful combination, fear and ignorance.</div> <div>     It spreads like wild fire amongst the slumbering populations of the world.  This very combination of fear and ignorance is exactly what </div> <div>     those who wish to have power over others seek to perpetuate.  When we are a fearful and ignorant people we are an easily controlled </div> <div>     people.  Of all the things we fear, many of us fear change the most.</div> <bR> <div> This fear of change is truly tragic as it will likely be our undoing.  Each of us, whether we are aware of it or not, feels this dark cloud looming on the horizon.  </div> <div> We often blind ourselves to the problems we must eventually fix.  If we continue to simply ignore what is wrong with the world, will conditions not continue to </div> <div> degrade?  Many of us look to others to fix the many things going on around us that are detrimental to our well being.  How many of us look to the government</div> <div> to make everything better for us?  Why do we so unquestioningly hand this power and responsibility over to them?  Are they not just as much a part of the </div> <div> problem as we are?  Perhaps part of this issue is a commonly held belief that the government got us into this mess, and they should be the ones to get us out.</div> <div> The simple truth is this:  If we wish to see any change in the world, no matter what the change we wish to see, we must each of us take responsibility for that</div> <div> change.  Were we each to make changes in our lives, were we each to make some small sacrifices, the total effect on the world would be amazing.  I realize</div> <div> that many of us do not want change or sacrifice.  However, want it or not, change and sacrifice are already upon us.    </div> <div>     </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=20 BGCOLOR="#999966" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Contents © Emily Pierce 2008</div> </td> </tr></table></body>