It was a strange feeling to wake up in the morning without a written schedule to follow or ceremonies to attend. Realizing I was not going to carry the Torch today on a new road with another goal and with unexpected surprises was a little disappointing.

Our first stop upon entering our New York neighborhood was to stop and eat at the ‘Smile of the Beyond’ restaurant in Queens.

We were all generously treated to a big meal there by our good friend Sahishnu, the manager of this wonderful and popular establishment. The service was also fantastic as we truly missed the great food of this vegetarian paradise. It is great to be back but still feels a bit strange.

Even though we are now in our own familiar surroundings where I have been living for decades somehow it still feels unnatural to me. After having been on the road constantly for four months straight and meeting new people every day as we identified with a new section of country day after day, being stationary and seeing the same familiar people all around somehow does not seem normal yet.

Reaching out into our vast world to share and spread the feelings of oneness and harmony takes a tremendous amount of energy and work. The planning, the resources from many people who help us, the self-giving spirit of the team on the road, and the positive energy of the people we meet, all make for one uniquely satisfying and incredibly harmonious experience. Yet this all has to be put behind us as we travel forward and now as we stay still for the time being.

Like the sprouting seeds that grows up in the spring and summer climates, sharing its energy and life with all around it, the dormancy of the rest of the year are necessary for the future growth and manifestation. Although we will not become dormant in our regular lives, our Torch has stopped moving and our team will soon spread out into their own natural environments.

What we have done in the past four months was to sow seeds of harmony and friendship and at the same time to assimilate the love and harmony that seems to be prevalent everywhere we went, from the highest mountain ranges to the lowest deserted valleys and the most crowded cities and neighborhoods. Even there we saw and felt a deep yearning to experience and share harmony, the harmony that lives and grows inside of us, all of us, no matter who we are or where we are on this vast and beautiful planet we call our oneness-home, the Earth.

We are ever so grateful to all those who made this tremendous effort happen successfully and safely. There are too many names to list here and we have been mentioning just about everyone involved at one point or another. We were just the runners but the World Harmony Run was the interaction of our running team with all those along the way who shared the harmony in so many different and creatively personal ways with us.

We hope as you read this that you will be inspired to see just how many amazing ways this was done by countless numbers of incredible people in our country and many other parts of the world in such a short time. We also hope that all that we were able to do, which never really seems like enough, becomes fruitful and spreads to all those who need and want the harmony and love that is available to us all at every moment. Every moment means the present and the future so we will do this again and again until there is only harmony in the world and there would be no need to remind each other of that anymore.

Until that day comes, we will gladly try to make the World Harmony Run the fulfillment of the vision of a benevolent creator and at the same time the dream of a truth loving humanity.

Arpan and Team Harmony, U.S.A.

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