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Purposes are directly related to emergence. They help engender the emergence. They are related to the inviting living question.

They are also related to Chris Corrigan’s next first step: he has intuited this idea, but not stated it: We cannot know all the steps because we do not know whether we will find rock or water or sand or woods in our way. We can only put one foot in front of the other and head in a direction. Directions are all we have on a round planet: there are no stopping places!

:- Doug.

Sometimes we might use goals as tools, or think they would be useful. If that is how we have to think for that time, then so be it. Still, we need to do so within the framework of purposes. Purposes take us high above the fray where we can see the lay of the land, we can see panoramas, we can pick out directions.

:- Doug.

To live a larger life: to see ourselves as part of the larger life, the single life of the world: this is our purpose.

:- Doug.

I don’t like the farming metaphor when you call us a team.

:- Doug.

That is the issue, yes? To live a larger life. Goals do put blinders in front of our eyes which keep us from, and maybe to keep us from, seeing what is all round us.

:- Doug.

Let’s look only a bit further than we can see—but lots wider.

:- Doug.