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Conversation is autopoietic. It not only creates itself, it creates the persons who are in its spinning: webs , threads and gossamer, making, working, weaving.

:- Doug.

What would it take for you to invest yourself in this question?

:- Doug.

Let’s not call it profit. Let’s call it compensation, sharing, allocating our gifts and resources.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 863

I will not explain how conversation changes things, because its means are outside our usual experience; therefore a new experience is necessary. It is not logical that conversation would have that effect, but it does. It is not logical that a babe in arms will walk. It is not logical that a tadpole will become a frog or a caterpillar a butterfly. For some things we just have to go through our fear and disbelief.

This is about a new human beginning. Something new can be afoot. We need only meet. Our resources will appear, not because some magician makes them ex nihilo, but because together we will see things we missed before. And maybe we will make things ex nihilo, after all.

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Immerse to emerge.

:- Doug.

Since binging forth a world manifests itself in all we do and all we are—each of us alone and more powerfully, several of us together, create worlds each action we make and more powerfully still, when we make these actions and resolve to be a certain way, consciously. This is why we see worlds of overwhelming evil and overcoming good simultaneously. It is why we must get busy, mind and hand.

:- Doug.

Is it possible we could have a future not continuous with the present? What would we like for it to look like?

:- Doug.

We don’t need to bring the good ideas to those who are suffering—they’re already there!

:- Doug.

Where are the conversations? Whittle away what is not conversation….

:- Doug.

Can we find resources among the poor, peace in war victims, justice among the deprived?

:- Doug.

Beyond competition: What and who do our agencies and callings have in common?

:- Doug.

Now there is more suffering;
Now there are more minds and hands
To work on the suffering;
Now will we?

:- Doug.

War makes governments; only peace can make people.

:- Doug.

We do not seek involvement. That is too limp. We invite abandon. Nothing is required—until you say I will. Then all is put at stake.

:- Doug.

Let’s make ways to come together across our separate issues and movements. Let’s make new ways to put the fragmented pieces together.

:- Doug.

What gift do you have about which no one knows?

:- Doug.

What does it cost others if I do not keep my sacred promises? What does it cost others if I do?

:- Doug.

What do we choose to invite together that we could not invite alone?

:- Doug.