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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1605

Arguments scream around the world between radical fundamentalists. What brings that about? Some speak of a dialogue of the deaf.

Whence the deafness? Hate is one source. Hate feels good. Hate establishes false superiority. Love feels better: and we do not reach it.

Fear is another. The opposite of love. We fear the other might be right. Let us clean the world of all who are not the same as us. Then we can live in peace.

How to break through that? Somehow we have to unstop our ears. If we can hear one another, we can discover our common humanity. Even our common wonder at what creation holds.

That requires willingness, and again we are back to finding a path to our heart of hearts. If we have armored that away, how then?

Maybe that armor is dissolved by tears. Maybe there are other things to open the armored heart.

Please pass it on.

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We can get the world we want if we help enough others nurture their significant conversations.

:- Doug.

What conversation would you like to start in our community? Maybe we can see to it!

:- Doug.

Conversations don’t die, they swirl around.

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My interests in conversations are running toward kairos, end of life, Internet of Things, Israeli-Palestinian peace, storytelling….

:- Doug.