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The ills of a group must be resolved from within, by its members. Once in a while there needs to be a force from outside, like a catalyst, but most often that catalyst serves to tell the members they have the power, authority and respect to resolve it themselves.

:- Doug.

Is it fear that makes us live lives that do not satisfy?

:- Doug.

Get the question right
or even get it wrong
and your prize is
you get another question
Life is questions
addressed to us
When you think you
have the answer
Here, have another question
Flooding questions
is what keeps life
exploring
Not for answers
but for deeper questions
Are our questions
Meaningful?
Intimate?
Idealistic?
Complex?
Living?

:- Doug.

What is the conversation you’d most like to be engrossed in?

:- Doug.

Are we starting the new conversation?

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

We can create a new language for the profession of law. We need to find a life in the law.

:- Doug.

In open space, we are inventing a new art of conversation. In conversation, we are inventing a new art of living.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 627

Are you playful? Today? In playfulness we try out, we pretend, we create. We challenge with impunity. Poke fun. Tickle. Tickle tuckle trickle snort.

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To my good friends–

My passion is engaging persons with their future together.

:- Doug.

What has heart and meaning for you today?

:- Doug.

To my good friends–

What would an all-day meditation/contemplation look like? What could it mean?

:- Doug.

There is a sibling-hood between conversation and compassion.

:- Doug.

What career would you choose today?

:- Doug.

When do you feel most alive?

:- Doug.

With whom do you have your best conversations?

:- Doug.

If you can’t see my ears, I can’t hear you.

:- Doug.

The President of the U.S., the President of the company, are both irrelevant. What we choose to work toward–this alone matters.

:- Doug.

The question is no longer What direction is the future headed? Rather, What direction do we choose to bend it?

:- Doug.

What are you free to do? What is something that needs doing? Do.

:- Doug.

How it would change our thinking
to know that knowing and not knowing
yes and no
center and periphery
not only do not matter
but in the holy
now
do not exist.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 626

Being whole means leaving a gift behind for the world to unwrap and enjoy. For are we not more complete, more whole, when we give?

What is the gift I want to leave behind for the world to find? What would go beyond me and my name if instead just my light were left? What would that light be?

To see ourselves and each other as just a little larger every day, to be whole, complete and exploding. If just a few can see and teach others to see, soon we all would see.

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Life is a series of experiments. Some go as planned, some do not, and in some you blow up the lab. From most you can learn, many not. On the whole, the result of the experiment is a puzzlement.

:- Doug.

How do all the filling stations around town get the message to make their prices the same, simultaneously?

:- Doug.