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We have a need in this universe to both love and hate, both attract and repel. What we don’t need is the war between them and the extra heat of feeling bad about the conflict. Conflict is necessary. Pulling and pushing are both necessary. Some­thing that will not budge is necessary—maybe to grow our muscles, maybe to keep our muscles in tune, maybe to give us impetus to try harder or to decide when enough is enough and go on to something more important. Maybe a hundred other reasons. How do we know till we get to the other side? And maybe even then we still will not yet know.

:- Doug.

Love, relation, attraction, whoosh—all are names for the same phenomenon: drawing together of beings one to the others in the world there is.

:- Doug.

There’s not a problem in the world that people acting together cannot solve.

There is not an opportunity that persons together cannot create and make happen.

The only thing that ever has worked has been a small group of people doing.

:- Doug.

I do not wish to contend and argue. To argue is to lose—for one if not both. Better to ask questions, to gather out the other’s stories. Explore. Find a person.

:- Doug.

Do not take what I say for true: prove for yourself. These are my probings of the world to find what is the message to my own life.

:- Doug.