Sunday, 20 July 2008
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JANUARY 2006 • VOLUME 5 • HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
This issue we visit Portugal a land that celebrates the horse as an ongoing aspect of their every day lives and culture as few countries do today. Join us as we visit the most famous of horse fairs anywhere in the world, a visit to a world famous riding school and of course enjoying introducing Portugal's most famous son Nuno Oliveira. As well as visiting Portugal this issue is dedicated to that most important concept and aid that we have. That of touch. It is through touch, through simple sensations that we give to the horse through our reins that all is communicated, our thoughts, our wishes, our feelings, our love and our fear. We welcome this opportunity to once again share many different masters from Oliveira, to Decarpentry to Wynmalen to Steinbrecht and share different schools with you and we would like to leave you with the following thought... "If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive."
As part of the equestrian community we have an obligation to pass on, to give of the knowledge that we have stumbled upon. Don't hold on to it. It was never yours to hold onto in the first place. Knowledge has no master, and if you don't pass it on, it becomes as if it never existed. To hold onto it,in the end, only hurts those who limit themselves in their own ability to open themselves up to receiving the special gifts of knowledge that others have to share with them. All knowledge is interwoven with many different threads, to hold onto some of them, is to never have all the threads that you need that will allow you to blend and weave into the timeless masterpiece of song and spirit that is the equestrian possibility.
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January Editorial of Horses for LIFE
