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People are called to aspiration and they rise to it. This is the difference from mere debate and information sessions.

:- Doug.

Imagination: this seems to be the magic part of conversation. It touches something in a person which is novel and exciting. It goes beyond creating by its thrill. It touches something true and complete and beautiful just as it is which is its awe. This is what carries us out.

It gives a larger picture, a G*d’s-eye view of the world and history and possibility.

:- Doug.

Change & process, bumping & sparking are input to meeting, not its essence. Its product is of a different order—the emergence of the new within its participants & from them & between them.

:- Doug.

People can make a difference if they choose. That is the difficult part: getting us to choose.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 888

Playing with
Here is a game
You can play—
With another
Person or two—
Ask each
Other each line
See what
Comes up—
Sea?
Play
Hear
Now

Where is the wow
In your life?
In?
Out?
Hope
Whales
Skin
Stroll
Fear
Others
Trees
River
Cave
Pony
Circle
Puppy
Red
Sky
Love
Water
Baby
Storm
Creating
Us?

Please pass it on.

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When you come to a Quaker meeting either you visit, you attend or you memb.

:- Doug.

We have come to the times of which the prophet spoke: I will write my presence upon their hearts and no longer will one have to say to another, Remember the Lord. We are now seeing that it is indeed within the hearts of all people to know the more, and we are discovering that we do not need to convert people, to kill people in the name of our specific religion: we all truly have within our core the above and beyond within.

:- Doug.

It is not about arguing. Yes, there will be people with that frame of reference, those who see life as competition, “red of fang and claw.” There will be others there, as well. If anyone wins, I hope it is all. That is the gravity of life.

:- Doug.

Come and see.

:- Doug.

We are capax deus—capable not just of the universe but of G*d—touching and being touched, loving, living, being that large. We are capable of the all there is.

:- Doug.

We’re the do somethings.

:- Doug.

This work is about raising the level of life itself, yes?

It is ergo a spiritual drama, an heroic journey, complete with life and death struggles with antagonists and returns with the boons of our wounds.

:- Doug.

G*d is speaking
Let us listen together

:- Doug.

Yea tho I may be teched
As I walk through the valley
I am touched
By the grand, the honorable,
More
I am thrown to the ground, humbled—
And lifted up, exalted—
By the more that is in my fibers
Here it is between us
And in that quantum no-space between us
The more that is our fibers

:- Doug.

We’re here to help
All of us
For all of us

:- Doug.

I am a mystic poet of meeting.

:- Doug.

I need you
To make me whole
To say this to each other
Is highest love

And fundamental fact

We need the ones
We fear to meet
When we break through

Love is well used

:- Doug.

Time and again I have been touched by G*d. This is a large gift, valuable, valued, to be given honor. I suspect it is given to all, and the reason many do not recognize it is that they do not know where to look. Share it.

:- Doug.

A goal blinds us to what’s between and peripheral to here and there.

:- Doug.

Open space is growing space.

:- Doug.

We may not be living for G*d, but it is sure we are living as G*d.

:- Doug.

What does corporation mean? We live in the corporate society—the embodied society!

:- Doug.

A daily and hourly task, a work in progress is our beloved community. Aware of it or not this is why we get out of bed in the morning, and keep going into old or sickly years. So loving the world—is our task.

:- Doug.