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Dear Shawn,
I was really surprised with your call. I had no words to say how happy I was hearing your voice.
You are very sensitive and you could catch my feelings behind my words. And this makes me cry once more. Thanks for making me cry happy tears.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
When I wrote you yesterday I was also thinking about our conversation, but in another way. I thought how rich is a conversation between two friends as we were doing here. This was the way knowledge was transmitted in early antiquity, from person to another. I was happy we could maintain this kind of conversation. In my opinion real knowledge can be transmitted only in this way and this is knowledge’s oral transmission.
I only feel free to say what goes on my mind because one day I could see your eyes shinning, your tears dropping on your face… His presence in you. This is the way I want to communicate with you. I don’t want to be worried if someone will read what I am writing, especially because I do many mistakes and I feel ashamed of that. If one day we think it would be good to show what we have talked we will do it. But we may be sure that our words will help someone in his/her way.
I am writing here because it is difficult for me to accept innovation. I usually need time and then I do. Perhaps next time I will write on the site… Can you wait for me? Ah! Is it possible there to communicate at the same time as a Chat?
I have many things to share with you… I am happy because since yesterday evening I had two rich experiences, deep in quality. Later I will tell you…
Please, let me know what you want me to do. I am a little bit lost…
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
I have this same connection with another Shawn, John, João. João was not my husband. My husband was also João, but I first met this João (friend) even before my husband. We were always friends, even if we do not see each other or talk frequently. He is always near me.
Once after we both got separated from our wife/husband we tried, for more than one year, to have an affair. It was nice, we loved each other as always and we discovered that we were more than woman and man, we were like sister/brother. We could not live as wife/husband, so we decided to separate. Today he is my chief at the University where I teach, he is the director of the University, and I know if he had not asked me to teach there I would not discover Plotinus, and would not experience this new aspect of my life, and you too. I thank him every time we are together, he is my brother in heart. This is enough!
I do not expect any thing from you and that’s why I was so happy this afternoon. Knowing you exist is fantastic and is enough! I was happy to hear your voice because our voices are the blow of our Soul. And again I could hear your soul not only in my ears, but in my Soul.
It is all the same if we talk here or on the website since we can talk from our Souls. Please, continue telling me your beliefs, your feelings, whatever your heart whisper.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
I just want to thanks your confidence explaining me your belief and I hope be worthy of it.
I have to go now, but I couldn’t do this without sending you some words. Tomorrow I’ll write more.
Have a good night! And a good day tomorrow!
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
Thanks for your beautiful words and the article you sent attached. Now I can understand your point of view and I agree with you.
There is only one thing I couldn’t understand. You always talk about angels… It is difficult for me to think about angels. I can understand a hierarchy on heaven, and even in earth, but why give them the name “angel”? Did Origenes talk about angels as you do?
Please, could you send me a Bibliography on Origenes? On the 25th July I will go to the Monastery and I would like to ask them if they can make copies of some Origenes’ books. Father Bernardo appreciate Origenes and they have many Origenes’ books there.
First we are here to “change” ourselves, and then others, and we can do both at the same time. As you I do provoke people around me.
It would be a pleasure to share your thoughts and beliefs. I do have much to learn with you and we have so many ideas to share… I am really happy we are doing this.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
I also do not know why we are connected… but it happens now. Once you said something about be in the present, not in the past or in the future, remember? For me this is enough.
These days I was thinking about friends. It is so difficult to find real friends. I am saying it because I had a deception with a friend of mine (another friend, not Dani). I thought we could be real friends. We were colleagues, then we became friends, and now she works with me at my office with massage and eutony. And it is all. Perhaps I can help her more with my work.
I want to ask you one thing about Origenes: What did he say about having many lives? I am asking this because he was Christian and Christianity does not accept other life, or many lives. And you what do you think about this?
Have a good day!
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
I imagine have understood what you are talking about and I agree with you. I don’t like this word “convert”(verb). For me conversion is something that occurs independent of our will. Nobody can convert others. It happens… So I do not like this missionary’s church work all over the world.
Dani would have a lot of work to do on herself to “Love thy neighbor as thyself”. And I will try to be near her as I can.
I understand perfectly what you are talking about church and prayer as I feel the same. Perhaps they are wasting words and time. I do try to center myself on the most important thing there. Some times it is difficult but I try to find places where I feel the God’s presence in spite of the people. I do not know how to explain this but I can say that it is possible.
But you can ask me why so much effort. I would answer that you can do the same. Remember what you told me yesterday about walking down the street. You can shine your light for others even in a church.
Everyone has his own way to go through. You don’t need to be among others to pray, then stay alone. This is good!!! But don’t hide your light. I felt your presence among others and this connected us.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
I am happy because I could feel your light shinning when I read this e-mail. I had the impression that something special happened to you today and you could share it with me as you did in Liverpool.
I have a beautiful story to tell you… it is the history of the conversion of a friend of mine, Dani. I met her yesterday and we will meet again tomorrow. It is difficult to explain what I feel about her conversion to Jesus. We are like cousins because our mothers are friends, really good friends since they were adolescents and we grew toghether. Well, she asked me to be her godmother. It is the first time I will be a godmother, and Dani is so close in my heart!
Tomorrow I will meet her godfather, his name is Frei (Father) Beto, he is a priest. He has a beautiful story and I will tell you tomorrow after I have met him. He sent me one of his books saying: Gabriela, embrace This Man’s (Jesus) Cause. (I think I could not translate his words exactly). The book’s name is “Among all men” (I think I could not translate the name exactly) and
it is a version of Jesus’ life. When I read this I remembered you and the way we embrace Jesus. It is a wonderful thing to share Jesus’ life, isn’t it?Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
How nice you are doing this on your summer work: “A Dialog towards the Truth”. Please, when it will be possible, try to tell me what you are doing because I am actually interested in this dialogue, as you know. And I would like to join you even at distance.
I think that now your are very busy and I shall not disturb you work and concentration.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn
I hope you can do your work, your summer work as you want, and as it is possible. I want to ask you one thing… What is a summer work? Are you traveling? Where are you going? And what you are going to do now?
I am happy because you ‘set me’ (I don’t know if this is the right word) together with Suzanne and Shana behind you. I will be with you wherever you are, in my heart and in my soul.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn,
I loved your last e-mail, but unfortunately I could not answer it until now because I had problems with my computer.
I would like to say something that I really do not know… Today I feel strange!
I have begun writing my PhD Project and I am happy because I entered again on Plotinus’ thought. Tomorrow I will have an appointment with my new supervisor and I am very excited because he is a person like you and me. When I work on Plotinus everything changes, especially me. I do not know what will happen now. It is a beginning, a new beginning…
It is good to know that you are near me.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn
How are you? I am just trying to “arrive” here.
I think that I am beginning something that I really do not know. A glimpse a new horizon and I don’t know what will happen in my life. You said something about a new beginning… Now I feel less solitary, not only because I have met you, but because I found my place, or a new place for me. As you know I am looking forward this “nowhere” in Plotinus thought and I know I should now walk everywhere to find this ” nowhere”.
When I was on the plane, above the ocean, I thought about you and our meeting and I understood that I have “my Plotinus” and you have “your Origen” but fortunately they have had the same master, Amonius Saccas. So we have the same master, but not only him. We are in the middle, together with Plotinus and Origen, and we share Jesus. I have no words to say what I felt when I understood this.
I am happy that you enjoyed my paper and wish to publish it on your website in English and also in Portuguese. I ask you only a few days to revise the paper. I will send it for you next week, OK? I enjoyed this idea because it is the first time that we can realize something together. And I hope this is only a beginning of a something bigger, bigger than you and me. Something that does not belong to me or to you, something we don’t want to do, but we have to do. We should share our knowledge as it is not ours. I thank you for this opportunity.
Thanks for your prayers.
Love Gabriela
Dear Shawn
I just want to keep your words in my heart, and I will sleep in peace.
I embrace you with my Soul.
Gabriela
P.S I hope you understand my poor English and forgive my mistakes. For me it is very difficult to write in English because I love writing and I usually write very well in Portuguese. Then I feel disappointed that I cannot find words to say what I want to say. With you I think it would be different.
