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Conversely we.

:- Doug.

The more you converse
The more we become interwoven

:- Doug.

There is nothing like this on the other side.

:- Doug.

Our death in conversation is real and risky: we may not emerge on the other side. So we have a choice. Here is a threshold.

:- Doug.

A hollow log, a tinkling bell is he.

:- Doug.

Conversation creates new names and through those new meanings, and through those a new us-in-relation. Relation equals reality.

:- Doug.

Conversation changes the way we touch the world, and through that births something in us.

:- Doug.

Conversation invites this one to see what we see, and through that to hear us.
:- Doug.

That’s not the only form of communion.

:- Doug.

Every conversation elicits a death—at least of your shields—and the arising of life never before seen in these places.

:- Doug.

Conversation may be the still point of the spinning world.

:- Doug.

Conversation is how we keep the world’s spin.

:- Doug.

The important conversations do not all need words.

:- Doug.

Will you be able to keep up with the silence?

:- Doug.

You must die.
We must arise.

:- Doug.

What new conversation is needed now? Urgently?

:- Doug.

The silence =
The embracing =
Loving

:- Doug.

What forces will shape the world of our grandchildren?

:- Doug.

If in fact we are developing, can we choose, and how ought we choose, to develop? For whom? For God, for community, for grandchildren? Harder still, what must die?

:- Doug.

Myth is a story which never happened, is always happening, and has always and everywhere happened.

:- Doug.

Jesus was at least an example for us.

:- Doug.

To take up our cross we often see as a burden to carry to our own execution. Maybe we can see it as an invitation to die to our old ways, our ego perhaps and go through that seeming wall to our new life.

:- Doug.

Some silences bring mystery
a blanket this
to wrap ourselves within

:- Doug.