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Are we ever
On a turning point?
Today?

:- Doug.

Open does not describe the Space
Rather what together we are doing

:- Doug.

Doing
You are
Becoming
Conversing
Among you
Opening

:- Doug.

If you say God is unchanging
You have poured concrete around God
Made God into a stone
Which cannot move
Cannot act
Cannot love

:- Doug.

Do you feel called?
In the wood, a sound of still hush
We are called
To love
Not given
A path

:- Doug.

We are never sure
Nor can we ever be sure
Yet we must go out

:- Doug.

Expression—in word or act—generates power for good

:- Doug.

Good needs us, to act.

:- Doug.

The truth is G*d at large
In the world
& we can do
That of G*d

:- Doug.

I can show you no image
of G*d
I have found & can only show
That of G*d

:- Doug.

G*d completes

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1143

We live in prophetic times: there is a grieving and a moving of large mythic proportions. There is a turning and we can turn history aright. A large globe is rolling; a little pebble can turn it. The globe does not need our might to start the rolling. Yet with all our might of head and heart, we must place the pebble. With intelligence, with love, we can amend its course, the course of this world. Where it goes is not known beforehand, nor does one pebble determine its course for all eons. We must be vigilant; we must ever honor, ever reverence life. Blood, sweat, toil, tears and laughter. And then set more pebbles.

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Attend presence.

:- Doug.

Conversation is important because it invites to come through our higher nature and essential oneness.

:- Doug.

What is the truth of what I give my heart to?

:- Doug.

I’m all about conversations and communities that matter.

:- Doug.

Why do I care?
This is the milieu of the sacred
This is the milieu of living wholly
G*d is the milieu
The milieu is meeting for mattering

:- Doug.

There is much that we do not teach, cannot teach, and probably should not try to teach. Among them are internalizing and assimilating the information; turning it into knowledge; developing the will and guts to proceed; putting the information together with the “student’s” own concrete situation.

:- Doug.

Which is larger—the body of what we know or what we don’t know?

:- Doug.

What don’t we teachers know that the students need?

:- Doug.

Open Space adds the unpredictable to a group—a possibility for the creation of something new in all the world. It adds room for complexity—A interacting with B, C with X, J with Q, and the interactions interacting, to produce life.

:- Doug.

The trick is engaging life fully each Now.

:- Doug.

I must work more toward getting inside of people’s minds and hearts and beings, develop more compassion.

:- Doug.