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Rather than tell you what you
lack
I invite you to
do
with your
life
between

:- Doug.

There is more that wants to be said.

:- Doug.

This might be why some conversations feel dead: we are not working on live questions: things which demand of us our input, our selves, our being, our work. We need to be doing work in our conversation, or we do not feel alive. If we are not doing heavy lifting conversations, then we feel dead. Conversations that work: this is when we feel alive. Let’s watch for that and see if it is true.

:- Doug.

The gift we bring is engaging people with what matters to them. Engaging people in their world. Engaging imagination, the highest gift. Engaging each other, the profoundest gift.

:- Doug.

When we are brought forth with someone, by someone, brought into light, there is a palpable pull of that one in our lives: a connection.

:- Doug.

Small acts lead to great changes, else why would we ever try?

:- Doug.

Does process require a concept of time—before and after, is and was? No: permanence; great activity; ever expanding. Wholeness, movement, process.

:- Doug.

Love includes hate and non loving
imagination includes non imagination
and all shades between

:- Doug.

G! is process
imagining—transcending
loving—including

:- Doug.

Intelligence is one small piece of imagination.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 777

Pasts separate us. What draws us together is who people are becoming. If we but see who we can be, we are able to come together warmly and become more wildly diverse. In conversation we are opening space for our becoming.

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Try this for your meditation today: of what all can you be conscious?

Your body: how do your legs, feet, hands feel? Upon what are they resting? What is touching them, and how does that touch feel?

Thoughts: What were the last six thoughts you had? What does the breath feel like in you throat, your lungs?

What are your emotions?

What is your waking state? Alert, drowsy?

What are you noticing? What sounds are there about you—the heating or cooling system, the birds outside your window?

Others: Are others moving about you, whether you can see them or not? Are they likely thinking? What are they likely doing, feeling? What are the animals and insects up to?

Meaning: What is the meaning of this moment for this moment? For your life’s span? About whom are you thinking? Whom else?

Fit: How do you fit in the universe? How does the universe fit in you?

Process: What is the process moving within the cosmos? What is the all there is? What occupies the betweens and the spaces? What is it up to?

:- Doug.

Let the dead bury the dead: you, come to life!

:- Doug.

Thinking for the universe
Really? That’s my job too!

:- Doug.

Is East opposed to West
or are they one continuum?
What tricks we play upon our times—
requiring most to lose we lose.

:- Doug.

Goals afford
a cheap success

:- Doug.

Are we inter-creating,
creating each other
inter-creative,
creating others
emerging
unknown until we choose?
are we
—not you, not me—
the god we thought we were worshiping
out there?

:- Doug.