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Stretch what is here, make it better. Do not cut. Do not break. Do not destroy. Do caress. Do pull. Do build up. Invite.

Invite life. Invite living. But more than that: add to it.

Create life. Weave, process, engender, procreate.

How does this engender life? How does it destroy life? What is the net balance on life of what we propose to do?

:- Doug.

Is there here a larger view?

:- Doug.

My job is fitting people with macroscopes. Why? So that we all start working together toward life. Life is working together, being together. Life is sustaining, engendering life.

:- Doug.

How do we become more real in the world, more of a part?

:- Doug.

What’s on the edge of your thinking about humanity, life, the larger picture?

:- Doug.

A group in process becomes a vibrant living thing.

:- Doug.

Life is engendered by attention.

:- Doug.

A circle forms a boundary which gathers our attentions to the inside while inviting others from outside to join.

:- Doug.

Do we perhaps need fat boundaries between people? Is coming together something to be avoided? Most of the time, like we do?

:- Doug.

Apples, bananas and nuts, oh my!
Working together for good, oh my!

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 975

How are you part of something larger?

Please pass it on.

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We are Community Disorganizers—getting apples, bananas and nuts to work together for good.

:- Doug.

Since the persons—the whole persons—are the strongest centers in the room, to introduce anything between them is to break the ways in which they support and intensify each other. Even a low table does this breaking because then we cannot touch each other: line of sight suggests we are only brains on sticks and not fully human, not fully strong and strengthened centers. Pulling the circle out to form corners also breaks the supporting roles—now those in the far corners can only support the few people around them and others not at all—we cannot intensify those in the corners on this side (we cannot even see each other), and only a little those in the corner opposite. That’s why squares of people are weaker than circles of people.

:- Doug.

I am only an ordinary person who has honored his insights by writing them down, thinking about them with others.

:- Doug.

Our work is working together. Nothing more. This is not a goal. Goals end. This never ends. Whatever we work together towards only serves to bring us together. Our work is working together. Only this.

:- Doug.

We’re not here to help each other: we’re here to work with each other, be with each other.

:- Doug.

You hear a bird whistling in the woods, and a truck on the highway, see the breeze rustling the tree leaves: how are these all one whole, one entity, all aspects of the same life? I want us to see the world whole. What can we see wholer today?

:- Doug.

There is something magical in humanity: it is what’s developing.

:- Doug.

Community Disorganizers: intensifying living centers among us.

:- Doug.

Life tries to preserve its larger, wholer structures, else why would we think of a life after life? We have an absolute need to continue.

:- Doug.

It seems to be the weight, the center of gravity, which pulls things together, always together in symmetry upon symmetry. So it seems with mass in stars, so it seems with ideas in gatherings of people, so it seems with gathering of people.

:- Doug.

The smell of the newly cut grass
the dog running through the fields
fireflies at twilight….
a few of the 10,000 living centers
we are generating
today

:- Doug.

You have heard it said “United we stand, divided we fall,” but I say United we are, divided we are not.

:- Doug.