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Know ourself: Go beyond “know thyself;” the singular is intentional: there seems to be a one made up of all of us, or at least larger than the sum of us.

:- Doug.

We are the way, the depth, and the meaning.

:- Doug.

A step toward putting them together: As teacher, I point out a possible trailhead—conversing—and some tools that might help in opening the path. Students working alone or in continuing conversation find or create ways to places further along.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1602

There are no words adequate to express our feelings, only approximations and near misses. That’s why arguments, politics, and war. Those are why we must continue to converse—to find ways past arguments, politics, and war. The noble art. Every one an artist.

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Teacher points out the trail head; student makes own trail.

It is a group thing. If I am correct, conversation is how we find our own depths. We invent together. Know together. Conscious.

:- Doug.

Where is the depth in you?

:- Doug.

What a shame if the world is static! We are gathering people to learn an unchanging lesson, to be each of them all the same. Movement and novelty are the hallmarks of life. Otherwise we live eternally depressed. Repressed.

: -Doug.

If? When? we are challenged in our beliefs and worldviews, even these new challenges will be challenged. We come to stand on quaking erupting ground.

:- Doug.

For you, when new contradicts comfortable, what then? What do you contain that ought to be loosed?

:- Doug.

Conversing is fundamental.

:- Doug.

This is a movement together—this world, this educational adventure.

:- Doug.

What makes you think creation is done? What makes you think your understanding of your sources is complete?

:- Doug.

The universe is vaster than we can comprehend; and yet the very inside of any of us is greater still. Stretch yourself more, for the amongs of us are orders of magnitude more. O, the things we’ll do—if we open these eyes!

:- Doug.

Am I teaching inner work, inner conversing? Inner work that sprouts in outward conversing?

:- Doug.

All the thousands of insights I have had major and minor are nothing to those you will have: yours will evoke from us ours: we await.

:- Doug.

Each of us is the center of our own universe, and yet it is a universe—and each of the universes is part of the one universe. Relating—conversing—is the central activity of these universes and the universe. Change and stability flow through. This much change, this much stability, are necessary to this conversation-universe.

:- Doug.

See here: we already see the world is composed of conversations. We just have called them by another name, one that limits how we see them: networks. Networks tend to be seen as two dimensional, with limited and fixed directionality. In reality the world is more than two dimensional; directionality is unlimited and organically growing, changing, dying, making liaisons, breaking them, and re-establishing them. Conversations and our horizons grow and all is color and fragrance and story.

:- Doug.

You have height and width
But have you any depth?

:- Doug.

These days we hold Newton
Accountable for detaching
Observer and observed
What does this say of
The East’s venerable detachment?
Is it good or not to be detached?
Is it possible? And why? For one?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1601

Think of a day when
You had nothing to do
Other than breathe

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In hearing I am way truth life
We do live if we hear
You also are asked to be

:- Doug.

Are you someone’s soul caregiver?

:- Doug.

This practicing is not practicing—it is continually approaching, watching, waiting

:- Doug.