East Aurora High School Alumni
East Aurora, New York (NY)
Halim Byron
East Aurora High School
Class of 1974
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HALIM'S PROFILE
| First Name | Halim |
| Last Name | Byron |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1974 |
| Gender | Male |
| Current Location | Portland, OR |
| Relationship Status | Married |
| About Me | "At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." Lao Tzu “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung "It is impossible to overcome passion, aggression, and ignorance with a long face. We have to cheer up. When you begin to see yourself fully and thoroughly, then you discover your sense of humor. It is not the same as telling bad jokes. Humor here is natural joy, the joy of reality." ~ Pema Chödron "In this epic moment of radical environmental and social disruption, the world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. - Martin Luther King Jr. The existential gauntlet is to make the shift fast enough to outrun global cataclysm. The next five or six years will be the once-in-a-civilization window to change course. We can move from breakdown to breakthrough. The Mayan people call this the “Time of No Time.” From here on, we’re on Earth time. Mother Earth is shaking to her core. It’s a time of madness, disconnection, and hyper-individualism. It’s also a time when new energies are coming into the world -- when people are growing a new skin. The Mayan vision says we in the West will find safe harbor only if we can journey past a wall of mirrors. The mirrors will drive us mad—unless we have a strong heart. Some mirrors delude us with an infinity of reflections of our vanity and shadows. Others paralyze us with our terror and rage, feeding an empire that manufactures our fear into resignation. But the empire has no roots and it’s toppling all around us. In this time, everyone is called to take a stand. Everyone is called to be a leader. To get beyond the wall of mirrors, the final challenge is to pass through a tiny door. To do this, we must make ourselves very, very small. To be very humble. Then we must burrow down into the Earth, where indigenous consciousness lives. On the other side is a clear pond. There, for the first time, we’ll be able to see our true reflection." ~Kenny Ausubel “One of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. We've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our time.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. "The path of reclaiming the wounded erotic is neither placid nor boring. It is full of dizzying precipices, heady moments of release, crushing assaults of shame. But at its core is the real fire we are all after, that blazing and untarnished aliveness that lies within everything of value and spirit that we do. Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded and colonized, in our determination to make the bombed and defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical and sacred places from which to transform the world... Because the closer I come to that bright, hot center of pleasure and trust, the less I can tolerate its captivity, and the less afraid I am to be powerful, in a world that is in desperate need of unrepentant joy." ~Aurora Levins Morales, "Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood" “I may never win, but I’m not going to lose.” The story of my (endless?) childhood. As I came to, the fight was going on. My brother was acting one role. I, catching on quickly, assumed the other. And so it goes: now both are to be sure acted out on the outside- by my wife and I, by my son and I, by drivers on the road and I; by bosses and I; by Israel and t...(read more) |
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Recent Class of 1974 Reunions
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Gamma Sigma Fraternity International
Invited Classes: All Classes
Date: Oct 11, 2019
Description: Gamma Sigma Alumni, please register on Facebook at "Gamma Sigma Fraternity International"
Class of 1960 Reunion
Invited Classes: All Classes
Date: Jul 25, 2015
Description: Casual picnic in the grove area of the East Aurora Legion, One Legion Drive - off Center Street. East Aurora alumni gat...(read more)