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Don’t assume
Others are good
Know

Your knowing is
Beyond technique
Beyond policy
To discipline

Seeing loving hearts
Beneath the violence
Done to you

:- Doug.

Don’t try to sell what’s
good, true and beautiful: it will
come: just work in it

:- Doug.

Goals are concentrating your efforts on your “I wants.”

:- Doug.

Leading around in circles, Open Space is.

:- Doug.

There—by—
The grace of God
Go I

:- Doug.

Another yourself
I am
(For a name tag
For a change
Of heart)

An ourself, together
Are you and you
and I

:- Doug.

Friend, you are blowing through the trees and grass, the clouds and insects, the birds, houses, and Internet, and me.

:- Doug.

Heaven is now
Beloved community is now
We get to work

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1335

A cloudy day
and God is in the grass
among the rain drops
nourishing
us
crawling with the crawlers
swimming with the plankton
lighting easy on our eyes
plinking with the drops
gently on
us

Please pass it on.

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Beyond images
G*d is

:- Doug.

We must reverence more than we ordinarily do. You are every here. So I seek you when I am already found, where no seeking is needed, but my attending is what needs work. How do I attend to you? You are among us, you are within us, we bow to you within each. Why do I want to see? Why an image?

The image we carry, of a grey haired man on a big chair, with marionette strings in one hand lightning in the other, is in danger of being engraved in our senses. No graven images we are cautioned. So hold our images as lightly as we can—let them fly as we are able.

:- Doug.

The world’s a magic place
all ready for you & I
to pop out!

:- Doug.

I don’t care whether we use probate or some other tool: let’s just get the job done.

:- Doug.

Here is a poem that wrote me….

:- Doug.

I may have an object of my attention but not a goal. Where I choose to place my attention is more flexible, capable of being superseded as needs arise.

:- Doug.

People are meetings: meetings of two or more movements.

:- Doug.

What’s here? Who’s here? These are the objects of meditation/contemplation.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1334

Softly
Seeing the world
Softly

People
Building, driving, repairing
Cars
To go be with one another
To move the world to compassion for
People

Towers
For electric wires to carry our
Energy

Constructing
Large houses for working for one
Another

Softly

Please pass it on.

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How necessary death is to life. We cannot survive a day without something dying, such as the plants and animals we call our food. The soil is the excrement of worms. This year my garden has lots of worms, so it seems healthy to me. Death and decay are part of the very cycle of life. One corollary to this is anything which grows and grows but has lost the ability to die is a cancer. What do we have that we expect to grow and grow and never die? Businesses and governments. People generally recognize the ill effects of these organisms which seek to take over our lives. What will happen to us when one or more of these does become too big to die? Will we be eaten by our own?

:- Doug.

How might we converse on a root level with God? What and where is the tap root of God?

:- Doug.

We owe it to ourselves at least once in our lifetimes to converse fiercely.

:- Doug.

Can we ever stand outside our thinking and see what it is doing?

:- Doug.

We can always be more happy, and that means more whole. And more sad, and more grieved, and more involved with one another. All this too means more whole.

:- Doug.