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I don’t have Now to do that; I must be here.

:- Doug.

Listening is something we do to another. As such it partakes of a worldview that the other is other—different, apart, It (Buber). Listening stops short of what we need; indeed its nature holds a touch of violence. Hearing is where we need to work towards. Here we see the other as part of the same cloth, as Thou, we take him or her into us. We are moving to realizing that all life is one life.

:- Doug.

G*d is not thing but moving.

:- Doug.

We cannot be separated from divinity any more than divinity can be separated from us.

:- Doug.

I do not need to say it all. Just what is important now. If people do not want to hear that, maybe next time.

:- Doug.

My work is conversation. I have a law practice. I encourage people to converse about end of life things. I have a community practice. I encourage people to converse a new world into existence.

:- Doug.

There are many ways to lay down your life for your friends & many friends.

:- Doug.

Worship may be to please a deity, but I seek to be with.

:- Doug.

We think we matter and that establishes it. I think I matter, therefore I do.

:- Doug.

Why does this work stuff have to keep interrupting life?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1075

I see that G*d is flow. Everything is flow. We are flow. Everything affects the flow and motion of everything else. We can consciously affect this flow.

We is more a collective thing than individual.

We are most individuated with others. The group flow makes special each person, highlights and activates what is most extraordinary about him or her. Each contributes what no one else can, and only through the gathering, seething, generating whole.

The whole births something that none alone could or would even imagine. The parts in whole are more than the sum of the parts, and more than any other mathematical operation on the parts or the whole: we creates from whole and from nothing. This is the world as I see it.

What does this mean to us? 1. Join in. 2. Make an effort to make no effort: ponder, observe, wait. 3. Jump when called to jump. 4. Choose the good direction. 5. Plan less: the world depends less on you than you imagine. 6. Meet more: the world depends more on you than you imagine.

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Before the universe was, I am, we are, one.

:- Doug.

Security is a blanket that limits our movement.

:- Doug.

Mystery may be a good thing—in fact it may be the only thing we’ve got.

:- Doug.

Bad news is easier to take than no news.

:- Doug.

Honor your questions. Here is power in the world. Putting questions together is much more valuable than putting answers together. Answers come from history—what worked in the past. What will work now is just as likely to be something new. Answers cannot take you there, but questions can.

:- Doug.

You have come here today with questions. Remember that questions are more pregnant and therefore more powerful than answers. By putting your questions together, letting them ask each other, you will find something new in this world, if you open space in you for it.

:- Doug.

Since we are part of who God is, there is no reason to feel estranged and every call to belong.

:- Doug.

We are part of who God is
therefore we live

:- Doug.

A power of attorney would seem to be a very self-centered document: do this for me at this time. Rather, it declares your interdependency with the rest of the human race and especially your family: it says how others can love you; it says you trust them with your very life. A power of attorney is about love.

:- Doug.

We know that a Will is a conversation
Of course
For what you say and what you give
Communicates
Something you want your children and grandchildren to
Hear
What do
You want yours to hear?
But do we hear them?
What do we
Hear
From our children
Our grandchildren?
From the generations?
What do we need to hear?

:- Doug.

Host circles of heart people, poets and whole-makers: to hear and be heard, to lean into the future and what there can be made good.

:- Doug.

The important thing in all of living is conversing. In your Will, what do you want your children and grandchildren to hear? What of them do you hear?

:- Doug.