Action

[Paul Rezendes]

Everyone,

I was in a zoom group Friday. There was some discussions and it led to someone texting me. We were talking about what to do in this world with all the violence and discord. Some people felt like there's nothing we can do. I would like to share this text I sent to a friend on how I see it.

We can do something. There is action that does not come from the mind or thought. We can’t help but act. No action is an action. Not going to a demonstration is an action. No one there makes a difference. Thousands of people there make a difference. Whatever we do, we’re creating change. We don’t seem to understand that as we are being created, we are creating. It’s all happening in the Now. No past, no future, just change. And we are part of that and what that is, is us happening… Lots of love to you.

Just sharing a point of view,

Peace,

Paul

[Dan Kilpatrick]

Paul, All,

A question came up this morning for me, that seems related to what you are sharing here, maybe. Does action in the world have to do with love? Is love its own action, taking whatever form it gives rise to? Is this what is often being missed, where we are coming from?  -Dan

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[Paul Rezendes]

Everyone,

Dan, yeah, that is some of what I was trying to point to. However, I would not use the word love, it's just too loaded for me. Something else I should've mentioned. In some cases, we tend to villainize thought. Can we completely act without its influence? When we vote, are we using thought? If we don't vote, are we using thought? I don't think we can take thought out of our actions even though there is an action that is not dependent on thought…it acts on thought and it even uses thought.

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Paul

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[Dan Kilpatrick]

Thanks Paul. Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that thought is necessarily devoid of love, either/or (I wasn't present and so missed out on the background of what you shared, apparently). 

I was just pointing to the fact that we are sometimes so focused on "what to do" that we overlook the significance of from where we are coming from, acting, in the first place. Thought is necessarily part of us, nothing would happen in the world without it. But we can easily be so caught in it, trying to figure things out and "how to act", through thought, that we overlook from where we are coming, which determines our actions. But this does not mean throwing out thought, this wouldn't have any meaning, impossible. Love brings us to see from where we are coming, and this seeing/revealing is love itself. At least how it seems from here, -Dan

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[Paul Rezendes]

Everyone,

Dan, I wasn't referring to you at all when I commented that some people tend to villainize thought.

Seems to me that there is only action, whether it is heavily influenced by thought or not. Everything we do changes everything. Everything is changing everything. We can't throw anything out. I don't mean to imply that you're saying anything different. 

Paul

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[Dan Kilpatrick]

No worries Paul. I didn't feel you were saying I  was, I  was just clarifying my own view. I didn't see where it was coming from since I wasn't there in your meeting yesterday. 

-Dan

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[Rani Madhavapeddi]

Paul , Diehards,

Yes even the idea of love being sent is spontaneous it cannot be a choice made as then it will not be love in its sense of unconditional love. This love is spontaneously arising to both sides  that the mind or thought separates it as good and bad. 

Rani Madhavapeddi Patel

On Jan 10, 2026, at 8:24 AM, Paul Rezendes <pho...@paulrezendes.com> wrote: