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Just how much time do we need to converse about a significant question? Clearly, if the issue involves lives and has taken decades or more to develop, then a 6-hour conversation is inadequate. What would be appropriate to even get all the cold and warm data into the room, let alone start working on ways forward? How many conversations?

:- Doug.

Hearing is far from passive. To hear someone is to take them in, allow their internal thought process to inhabit yours, even to the point of displacing yours. So it often is uncomfortable. You suspend your cherished notions like a mobile on a string above your head, while you try on his and hers. Those might even kill your darlings.

But if this were all, we had not begun thinking. Nor hearing. What lies in the territory just past here?

:- Doug.

My task in studies is to work out some boundary posts of the unknown.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2129

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Today, in my reading (Book Two, p 397) Armstrong is speaking of the profound mystery by which concentrating on feeling results in the project becoming more functional. This is perhaps a mystery of good conversation in that the conversation accomplishes good. In what ways? For one, good feeling toward the others in the conversation, toward other humans, other living things. For another, it helps us find things that actually will work because we will be able to help others accept the ideas. But in the sense he means, that feeling leads directly to function? We would actually use something more which is more inviting to us. If a tool fits my hand, it will be more effective in its working—I will aim it better, it will bite better whatever it is to bite, it will strike more accurately, and more efficiently. If it is a building and I do not feel comfortable in that room, do not see the use for that room, I will not use it, it will not function. Those all contribute to understanding the effect of the mystery. But they do not get us beyond mystery.

:- Doug.