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We gather all hearts. We are not here, in the great school of life, to learn to love; we are hear to create loving. The metaphor of the great school of life is in fact a way to keep us down and dependent.

:- Doug.

We are not learning to love; we are creating love.

:- Doug.

Like a flower you are unfolding. The bud is not bad because it is imperfectly open. Today the rose knows more, sees farther, and so reaches farther beyond. Struggle not to open: you will on your day: and then you seed. Fuss not that you are not yet open; you are opening.

:- Doug.

Tell me again the parable of the good Mexican.

:- Doug.

How are we to invite people to love loving and inviting each other, to play together, to belong to each other? Have we ever? Is this a new thing?

:- Doug.

The human animal is strangely built: often the remedy for cold feet is to hold hands.

:- Doug.

What we can do!

:- Doug.

Do converse.

:- Doug.

Invite people to do
Life and wholeness:
Widen, Deepen
Interlace
Commit
Cause

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 866

When someone says it will not work, love them. When someone is despairing, love them. When stuck for what to say, love them.

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The way to bring anything to fruition is to gather 3 or 4 people who will do something. Repeat.

:- Doug.

I’m inviting people to change the world through small group conversation.

:- Doug.

The cushion is launching pad.

:- Doug.

Large group work gets done in small groups.

:- Doug.

Possibilities lie among persons—nowhere else: not with experts, not with plans and goals, not with top down.

:- Doug.

Aliveness is what is missing from purchased charity.

:- Doug.

There is only one life
There is only one l*ve
There is only one being

:- Doug.

How is G*d flowing among us today?

:- Doug.

The world is broken, yes
And out beyond the shattering
The world—& we—are whole

:- Doug.

In what way is G*d emerging in our community?

:- Doug.

Today I had difficulty settling
Other people too seemed
scattered
For here, for now,
This is where life is
rippling

:- Doug.

What’s emerging? What do we want to do about it?

:- Doug.

Questions can have an almost sacred dimension—asking questions can suggest the presence of something more, the possibility of something more.

:- Doug.