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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1015

There is one self. Of this our individual selves are part. Perhaps like holograms. If I shine a light on you, I shine a light on the one self, and on all. When we shine our lights on each other (which happens as we form centers near) the one whole is lighted and becomes vivid.

So our work is simply this: shining light on each other: on the good and light-worthy parts, because this shines a light on the great self. We understand that this work is different.

Almost at odds with the rest of the world which shouts “Look at me!”

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Our work is inviting friends to bring us all to life.

:- Doug.

Our elders are to be revered not because they are simply those who raised us, or even birthed us. They are not to be revered for their wisdom and experience. Nor are they to be revered because they are frail and fading out of our sight. They are to be revered for the life they birth and carry, even now. Even if they are dying. They are friends. They are equals. They are co-laborers in the task of bringing us all to life and life to us all.

:- Doug.

Many of us practitioners see Open Space as a quintessential action process. Some may use it for feel-good things, but its highest worth is in getting things going.

:- Doug.

Open Space is about attention—to each other and to the work at hand.

:- Doug.