We put together a little collage of clips from our indie-film-in-production, "1000 I LOVE YOUs," and set them to music. The result was so wonderful, such a powerful communication of love, and such beautiful evidence how very endearing every human being is, that we wanted to share it with you here.

Enjoy, and pass the link along everyone you love!

Andy Routledge, a fellow Zaadzster and good friend of the Love Tribe who lives in Israel, wrote us with a brilliant idea, "Wouldn't it be a nice thing to set up branches of the Love Tribe in various places around the world? I was thinking about that before and the idea has sort of grabbed me. Here in Israel there is so much love work to do."

We couldn't agree more! We've encouraged Andy to go for it, and given him suggestions for getting started with his Love Tribe in Israel.

If you're interested in being a part of Andy's Love Tribe, click here to contact him.



If you're interested in starting your own Love Tribe where YOU live, we want to encourage and help you in any way we can. Let us know!

How to start your own Love Tribe

A Love Tribe is a group of people who are committed to creating friendship and support for each other, and working together to love and serve the world.

The basic formula is simple:

• Regular meetings
• Unity of spirit
• Group Discussions
• Cooperative service

Regular meetings: Create camaraderie with one another by meeting on a regular basis. It takes time and consistency to deepen friendships, so we encourage you to meet often enough to be a keep the feeling of connection alive. You can decide how frequently you want to meet, and modify it as your group takes shape and grows in inspiration. Here are some options: twice a week (recommended), once a week, twice a month.

Unity of spirit: Unity of spirit is what makes any group feel like a real spiritual family. To cultivate unity of spirit with each other and to generate an abundance of love, well-being, and spiritual attunement to bring to the group’s activities, we recommend starting each Love Tribe gathering with a brief meditation using a technique called "Unification." Unification is non-sectarian, entirely based on love, and simple enough for anyone to do. Meditate for whatever length of time feels right to the group. Some options are: three minutes, five minutes, ten minutes.

Click here to download a PDF of the instructions for how to do Unification.

Discussion and personal study: To enhance the effectiveness of your Love Tribe mission and to deepen your relationships with each other, we provide weekly discussion topics to incorporate into your Love Tribe routine. These materials (short readings with study questions) can help you develop a deeper understanding of love, service, humanity, and God.

Your group can use these materials as conversation starters at group meetings, and distribute them to members for private reading and consideration. These will be made available on a new website we’re currently developing to support the proliferation of Love Tribes. We’ll announce the URL here when it’s ready!

Cooperative Service: Serving the humanity is a very important part of Love Tribe’s purpose. Serving is a great joy to every human being, and a way to give love and care to others in forms that are clearly wanted and needed.

Also, it is great spiritual gift to learn how to harmoniously work together, make decisions together, and give your energy together. The high energy of a cooperative work team richly feeds both the givers and receivers of their works.

If your schedule allows, end each Love Tribe meeting by going out and doing a service project together. Or, you could do a service project at every other meeting, and have the group discussions at the meetings in-between. Whatever works best for you.

Look for appropriate opportunities to serve people in your neighborhood or city. And when there aren't any convenient opportunities for community service, take turns helping each other at your own homes.

Please contact us if you want to start your own Love Tribe!

There’s a lot of talk about bringing our spirituality to the workplace and not separating our spiritual life from our “normal life.” I finally got what that meant in my relationship with a co-worker.

I sat side by side with a coworker who I found very hard to understand. Basically, everyone thought she was nuts because it was seemingly impossible to understand where she was coming from, or what she meant when she said things. People would tend to get a little cross-eyed listening to her statements. And we would often roll our eyes when talking about her.

Just about every other day, with great exasperation, I would tell my mentor, Sara, about something unintelligible my co-worker had said to me, hoping to get Sara’s sympathy for my troubled situation. Sara would regularly reply, "Well, did you ask her what she meant?" Feeling justified in blowing my poor coworker off, I replied "Heck NO I didn't ask what she meant. She's nuts!" What a jerk I was -- I totally admit it. 

Finally, one day it dawned on me that my position really stank, and nothing was changing or getting better. I needed to give this person a chance, and remember Sara’s advice WHEN those things were happening.

So the next time my coworker said something "crazy," I asked her what she meant. I still didn't understand her explanation, but now I was interested. So I asked what she meant by THAT, and she kept talking. Eventually, through enough talking, I understood what she meant, and surprisingly, she actually made sense to me! Even more surprising, once I had made all that effort to understand her, I actually began to feel affinity for her.

For weeks I went through this process with her, setting aside my knee-jerk reaction to her, and instead asking what she meant by things. I tried to understand where she was coming from, and asked for clarity from her each time it was unclear. We started to be able to talk through things, and to think together about how best to do our work. It was imperfect, but it was better, and our relationship was becoming sincere.

Then, she started opening up and telling me all kinds of things about her life and her current feelings. As I listened, she felt cared for. I became more and more interested in her, and started to really like her, to love her, and to understand her heart, and I desired to understand her even better. We became friends! Eventually, I knew what she meant without even asking her, even when it sounded crazy, because I understood the kinds of associations she made, and where they stemmed from. In the end I could explain to others what she was talking about, and would, on occasion, even speak for her because I knew where she was coming from.

More importantly perhaps than this, is the fact that she started to trust me. When she said something that really didn't make sense, I could talk with her about it openly and offer a different perspective so she could have more clarity -- I started to be able to help her be more clear, and cogent, and intimate. Together we became better people. I became less judgmental and more caring, willing to go deeper with people in general, and she became more understandable, more capable of saying what she meant, and more open-hearted.

It was a miracle of love – thank you Sara, and thank you love!
-- Mati

Addicted to love? We are too!

Here's one of our favorite skits for your enjoyment.

Love, The Love Tribe

Robert Palmer: Dinari
Air Drum: Mati
Air Guitar: Radha
Air Synthesizer: Carolyn

This past weekend we dedicated a new meditation hall  here at our home, and last night we had the best possible housewarming for the new room. Our dear friends at the Church of the Porch joined us for our evening meditation. The love and energy was so strong between us, we generated lots of love to flood the whole world!

We've been told by God that when two people who are far apart hold each other in love, everyone in between is blessed by that love, too. So, although normally we wish we weren't so far from our beloved Porch, last night we used our distance to real advantage... from Myrtle Point, Oregon and Atlanta, Georgia, to all!




Much love,

Sara

Dear friends,

We have been asked by God to give enormous love in this world. That is what we are trying to do, every day, in really down-to-earth, tangible ways. And that is what we invite everyone to do with us.

What does it mean to be a lover in this world? Amadon gave a tremendously moving explanation ten years ago, and to this day that talk remains an unparalleled description of what love is. Tonight he posted two video clips from that talk in his blog, "What Love Is!". If you want to love in a way that really makes a difference, it will help you.

Here is a very moving story from it (just to give you a taste; there's much more in the blog):


"The greatest guy in all Olympic history was the time they set up this incredibly diabolical course that everybody remembers as being the worst marathon course they ever set up, because the stadium was on top of a big hill. And so it happened that you got to run 26 miles and then you went up this long grade. Climb, climb, climb, climb at the very end. So this one guy comes through.

Did you see this documentary movie of this Olympic event?

This one guy comes through and there’s a tunnel, like where the football players come out. They come out through the tunnel into the stadium. This guy comes through the tunnel into the stadium and he’s so tired that he gets disoriented. So he starts running in random directions. All he has to do is go one lap around the official track in the stadium to complete the 26, but he can’t do it, because he doesn’t know where he is. So he starts running randomly. And, if you touch him, he’s out. You can’t assist a runner in a race, or he’s disqualified. So nobody could do anything, but watch him run back and forth without knowing where he was.

So, what happened? He ran around a bunch, and then he fell down. And then he got up, and he ran around a little more, and then he fell down. And a little more, fell down. Pretty soon you saw that he could not finish the race.

This guy is the champion of all time, and he lost the race and he never even finished the race. But he ran until he couldn’t run any more. Nobody else did that! What a runner! This guy is a national treasure. And throughout all history, as long as there is a copy of that film, everybody ought to know — this guy is a runner. This guy is the all-time champion of all Olympic champions, because he’s the only one who ran till the end. His end. His."

Also, you can get some fabulous, everyday ideas about loving from this article on the Soul Progress website: "How to Buy Happiness... By Being 100% Committed."

Love,

Sara

Is there a cure for clinical depression? Millions of people want to know. Some of those millions are on antidepressants known as Prozac, Zoloft, or Paxil trying to get some relief. I used to be one of them. As a young teenager of 15, my first boyfriend broke up with me for no apparent reason. In response, I went into an existential depression so deep that I completely withdrew from life, alienated most of my friends, and thought most of my days would be better spent in bed so I could avoid as much as possible. I developed all the symptoms of depression that they tell you about – thinking that life was not worth living, gaining a bunch of weight, and losing interest in most of the things that used to make me happy. I created a living hell for myself, mostly due to the constant barrage of dark thoughts I was willing to entertain on a daily basis. Though I didn’t see that at the time.

My depression continued for years after the break-up – though the degree of it did lighten up some. It just didn’t completely go away, all the negative feelings and judgments toward myself and my ability to make my way in the world. I didn’t really understand it, why I continued to feel so bad and hard-pressed to make any worthwhile commitments in my life or to feel positive about anything. What the heck was wrong with me? This wasn’t how a human being was supposed to feel. I knew that some of my family members were taking Prozac to alleviate their own bouts with depression. I thought maybe I had the “depression gene” that was messing up my body chemicals and making my life difficult. At that point, I was willing to try anything because I was in so much emotional pain. I found a psychiatrist who asked me a few questions and was more than willing to give me Prozac as a possible solution to my problems. I was 19 years old.

I tried it for about a year, and it totally didn’t work! I felt the same. Exactly the same! No magic cure for me. I was still emotionally unstable and moody as hell, chronically insecure, and very dissatisfied with my life.

My saving grace was that I still had my spiritual sensitivities intact, and they led me to my spiritual mentor Amadon, despite the internal madness I felt inside. My life began to change when I learned that the real cause of my suffering was my MIND. You know how they say your thoughts create your reality? Well I had no idea just how negative my thoughts and reactions really were until my mentor pointed that out to me. Mostly I rode an emotional rollercoaster with no one steering the ship. My mind was a wild little pony that had the freedom to roam anywhere it wanted, and I did very little to control it. Naturally, I felt victimized by my negative habits, and felt it was all just “happening to me.” Why me? The truth was, I needed to take responsibility for the quality of my thoughts, attitudes, and interpretations of things – which tended to be predominantly negative to this point. I needed to intentionally and committedly steer my mind and life in a truly POSITIVE direction. I needed to become a loving and giving person, not someone focused so much on herself and living in her “own little world.” So I decided to give it a try. It took a few years to start seeing a positive result that lasted more than a few days, but now I can honestly say that most of my days are GOOD days. Clinical depression no longer applies to me, and I’m no longer riding an out-of-control emotional rollercoaster.

I suppose it’s easy enough to say, just discipline your mind and life will work swimmingly. But there’s another practice that goes hand in hand with mental discipline, that is truly the great healer and redeemer. And that is the practice of LOVING. To be loving in your life and outwardly oriented is to have a higher purpose besides selfish desires, reactions, concerns, and fears. If you are spending your time loving and serving others, you don’t have time to think about yourself. This is the way to true, lasting happiness. No amount of contemplating one’s navel ever did that.

And the truth is, God didn’t make our lives impossible to resolve. He has given us unlimited choices, and the free will to choose as we wish. We each have beautiful life possibilities, which wait only for us to embrace and manifest them. Over time, as you more and more consistently choose positively and discipline your ego mind, you will strengthen spiritually. And, by making those same good choices, you will be building a great foundation for the life your heart desires. With a strong commitment over time to achieve this, it can be done! I’m living proof of it.

Love,
Carolyn

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I don't have a long history of meditating and I've recently started meditating regularly. When I sit down and begin to quiet my mind, generally all sorts of practical items flood into my consciousness and I have to put them all aside.

On this particular day, one of the things that popped into my head was an important reminder to contact a friend of mine. This person needed to receive a message and the sooner she got it, the better. I knew I didn't have any written reminder about it yet so I opened my eyes to look around for a note pad, hoping I could write it down and get on with my meditation with an empty mind.

No luck! It just so happened that there was nothing to write on in that room. "What should I do?" I thought to myself. I have a very busy schedule and a short time planned for meditation. If I go out of the room now to take care of this, I will have shortened my meditation too much.

Then I remembered reading that Jesus had offered to help in times of need.

I closed my eyes and connected with Jesus in my heart. "Jesus, will you remember this thing for me and remind me when I'm done so I can proceed with this meditation?" I was immediately flooded with a feeling of quiet confidence, the type you feel when everything has been effectively handled.  I settled down and went on with my meditation.

When I was done, as I was getting up from my seat, the reminder I needed was delivered to my consciousness! Joy and gratitude also filled my heart. What wonderful caring support had just been delivered to me in the form of this reminder!

Off I went to take care of the message that needed to be delivered to my friend.

Love, Dyana

I feel so happy today, and blessed. I had a wonderful dream last night of love and goodness, and God. In my dream I was going to see God. I approached a statue that was in a reclining position. It was so beautiful. It was slightly larger than life-size, and it was made of a very smooth stone, and it looked like a kind of Buddha, with a great roundness in feeling, like an African woman. I approached the statue of God, and as I did I was filled with the most amazing love. I immediately put my hands to the face of God in a caress and I felt myself loving God completely. I was absorbed in this radiant feeling of bliss and then God spoke to me. Though the image didn’t come to life, God said, “You know. You know what to do.” And I felt so happy. So incredibly happy.

I found out later that morning that Amadon had put up a new blog last night (Divine Help and Divine Being,) and I thought I would pop over to his Zaadz page and take a quick peek, just to see. Well, I did see! The photo on his blog was almost exactly the image of God in my dream -- a little different in appearance, but identical in feeling. I was floored! I called Amadon and told him and we were both amazed.


The Divine is finding as many ways to get the word out on love as can be found. So keep your heart open. God’s words of love are everywhere. I’m sure you know what I mean.

Love,

Radha

In the new world of cyberspace our identity has become a valued commodity. Everywhere, protection against identity theft has become an important consideration, and the decision to protect oneself against this injustice is an important step in the lives of most people today. But when we look to those who we admire the most, those spiritual beings who are able to shine the light of God through them and bring divinity into everyday life, we see that they have let go of their identity and with that, their egoic persona. So therefore, when faced with identity theft, I say, "Let them have it!"





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