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This work is not
primarily about money
it is about heart and possibility

:- Doug.

The holes in me
And the holes in thee
Of these the wind make melody

:- Doug.

Look: gentle people all around.

:- Doug.

There is power in small groups, but remember that group is as necessary as small.

:- Doug.

So who are we and what are we to do? Act in the little, act in the large. Stop and reflect. Together. Find the all. Rest and work here. Then we are the large ones. One.

:- Doug.

We need to listen to the sounds outside us, and inside, and hear what they say to us. All this is part of the human experience. All. We have the capacity for all this in us. We are layered, we are populous inside our soul. One by many by all. One by all.

:- Doug.

Listen!
(Hear the sounds outside
your window, else)

:- Doug.

I am a part of all there is
I am large
You also
And we
Our molecules intermingle
Cover the universe
The universe entangles with us

:- Doug.

Taking time, slowing down, making the slide to reflection: these things are not only necessary but life-making. I want to take more time, slow down, see the holy, the reflective, the within of the other.

:- Doug.

Heart truth signifies truth that comes from a deeper place.

:- Doug.

Truth and life are related, truth seems a part of life. So truth and life flow through us when we are connected to all there is: the outside world, one another, our left and right brains, the all there is flowing through them. Life flows.

:- Doug.

Whatever we see of the world there is more to see.

:- Doug.

Inspiration out of the blue might actually be hearing our right brain. Or it might be hearing something outside filtered through our right brain.

:- Doug.

No great actions without flaws. So act!

:- Doug.

“All the details. How do you do it?” he asked him.
“It’s life” he answered, “just here.”

:- Doug.

What we do sometimes feels to me like magic: we can get Dad the care he needs in the nursing home; we can see that Mom is able to stay in her home; and we can help gather the family.

:- Doug.

God invites me to
the deep
the large
the compassionate
to see—and to act

:- Doug.

Objects’ insides are bigger than they appear outside.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1482

Let go of your pictures
of that role
the dinner gathering you conceived
the direction your community would go
your pictures O human grab you
hold them back from other possibility, larger
hold you back from fulfilling
work you drain you
of you, from us, from resting wholeness
loving is not in doing your picture
loving is compassion allowing emerging

Please pass it on.

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I see you well.

:- Doug.

TG6 (sixth thinking gesture) is thinking inside one another, experiencing the richness of the layers.

:- Doug.

The gestures of thought carry us deeper.

:- Doug.

We can’t make every meal healthy by adding a salad.

:- Doug.