What griefs, hopes and questions arise?

What griefs, hopes and questions arise
In turning toward one another?
Can hear there be
Life, world, divinity?

:- Doug.

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Hear there is life

Here there is life. Hear there is life.

:- Doug.

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We are not

Without conversing, we are not—not hurting, not punished, just not.

:- Doug.

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increasing the life

Our work is increasing the life in the community.

:- Doug.

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stuff

Conversing is the stuff of life.

:- Doug.

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The strings by which

The strings by which G*d holds us are the strings by which G*d is held by us. The strings by which we think to make G*d puppet master of our world are the same strings by which we seek to make G*d our puppet. We think the strings tie; strings are but strings and when strained, break.

:- Doug.

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effective symbol?

What is an effective symbol for the role of conversing among us? A death scene?

:- Doug.

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What is the live question?

What is the live question? That means, What is the question which will bring us to life? For in conversation there is life.

:- Doug.

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small group, holy ground

When we are in a small group
We are in the presence of G*d
Shh! Hear first, Speak reverently;
Remove your shoes
This is holy ground

:- Doug.

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Ask this question

Ask the question about questions and story and dance and conversation and life.

:- Doug.

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Both ways

It is conversation that works this, but it is also this that works conversation, and it is in conversation we find our life.

:- Doug.

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History consists in speaking—answering

History consists in speaking—answering. The dash is hearing. We live in the dash. This dash is not fast. Injustice is when someone is not heard. Even those who are heard but whose pleas are denied have some measure of justice. The larger injustice is to ignore them, to turn away not your back but your ear.

:- Doug.

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What makes us think poor people have no good ideas?

What makes us think poor people have no good ideas, cannot help their own condition? That if we bring together a million poor, homeless, sick people, there will not be one good idea among them? Ahh, you say, if they had the idea, they would have instituted it.

Well, how do you know? When you are really ill, do you want to get busy and organize people? What if you did not have the skills—did not even know it was possible—to organize people to make a change? What if your whole life had been met with frustration and whatever you did led you to stop trying because trying was futile? What if you were never heard?

We can hear each other. This is the essence of life. When we are heard, we are real to someone. We matter. We are real.

Our main task on this orb is to increase the heard.

:- Doug.

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Converse and live

Ω 1This is the vehicle for getting us together. The magic is in the middle. The divine is among us. Ours is to converse and live.

:- Doug.

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Conversation among those

We seek conversation among those—us—who are in charge for the world.

:- Doug.

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central roles

Bring justice & compassion & inclusiveness to the central roles among us.

:- Doug.

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“Let us”

This world of ours is the meeting. When God said in beginning “Let us” God was speaking to us. Across the ages, down the eons, into our hearts. Proposing a partnership, a covenant, a playing.

:- Doug.

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