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You have filled me and drained me at once. This too is conversation.

:- Doug.

I saw a sign: “Jesus is for whatever is wrong in your life.” Why is Jesus exclusively for what is wrong in our lives? Why do we focus so on what is wrong?

:- Doug.

Hearing is not half of conversation
Hearing is all of conversation

:- Doug.

In the beginning was the flow
In the beginning was the conversation
We hear

:- Doug.

Dialogue is listening
To other
To self
To weaving

:- Doug.

Dialogue is not something two separates do at the same time in the same room and somehow clang into each other in the process: it is something that involves sacrifice and loss of boundaries and loss of certainty.

Come more deeply to know that when people are conversing they may even cease to exist as separates, at least in space-time, as the new being-meeting comes into existence.

This is a new thing as well: our being-meeting. It is not thing so much as dynamic. It is flow and intercourse with no separate existence, and dissolves the “individuals” into itself. It is like a catalyst, but does not cause reaction so much as loss of division without loss of differentiation and distinction. The persons are facing each other, sparking off each other, rubbing against each other, opposing each other, flowing into each other. They become more different as they combine. It is more mingling than blending, more mixture than solution. Each becomes more distinct, but each changes. Maybe they change toward each other, maybe away.

:- Doug.

Our interconnections are growing larger filaments, with fingers, entangling with many more each day that than the day before. We need to engage many brains to deal with today’s inter-filamenting. A one person answer is part, two dimensional in a colored, eleven-dimensional world.

The filaments: there are hairs and branches on the filaments, and filaments on the filaments and branches. They grow longer minute by minute and entangle and keep growing out, reaching out, reaching out, touching, bumping, turning, twisting, locking and moving on. This is us, this is us, and we can no longer separate without losing our selves. Our selves are others, parts with others, pieces in here, pieces in there: where is here? where is there? Complex, plaited, interwoven, so that no one brain, infinite as it is, can contain it all, see its patterns. We need more than one brain. We need especially the people, not just the leaders. What brazenness you have to declare you have no important work to do! Every one. Every. One. There are no little people. There are no more equal, more important. Every. One.

:- Doug.

Dialogue is not about something you do with other persons. It is not even how you are with others. It is not about relationships. It is finding a new essence that is of each of you, a person-meeting which does not exist any place or time. You each are objects apart from your be-ing, yet thoroughly one with it and each other. Your differences are necessary, throwing in facets to catch the lights.

:- Doug.

I wonder
What wonders me
Is how little
Important work
We think we can do
What wonders me
Is that I don’t need money
For retirement
But simply
Important work
Wondering

:- Doug.