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You cannot shut off your mind. You can give it a task.

:- Doug.

Conversation takes place in the spaces between the words, the gestures, the glances, the thoughts. Conversation perhaps does carry us. In any case, conversation cannot be dissected into words, gestures, glances, thoughts exchanged: something else happens. There is a glue, a sticky gossamer, drawing us together, informing us we are one, and lighting a fire in us that sometimes warms, sometimes burns, sometimes sends us out. Conversation carries us out…of ourselves, our selfish selves, and into largering.

:- Doug.

Engaging people in life means engaging with other lives, with the living: other people, all other people, other life forms, other things that exist, for they all inter-exist with us, and we all grow together.

:- Doug.

The tentativeness we all feel about what is our calling, our work in the world, is a good thing. It leads us to see what is going on in this complex world, test our singleness of purpose against it, and invent new responses. Our un-ease over this keeps us looking for higher principles, threads and streams running through. Sometimes the eye does not see because the eye is precisely what it is looking for. We are perhaps the thread or the stream running through, and we have the ability to decide and to invent beyond deciding.

:- Doug.

Conversation takes place in the spaces between words. Words, gestures, glances, thoughts are all instruments for the conversation.

:- Doug.

G*d and us: we are more alike than we are different.

:- Doug.