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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 693

Is war necessary to peace?
Is disease necessary to health?
It is a mystery and perhaps true.

Please pass it on.

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We have edges
But no bounds
We can slip over
Be known for ever
Peace wholeness relation
Begin in war
Of differences edges
Are not bounds

:- Doug.

What in the news troubles you?

:- Doug.

What, you don’t think that “simply” talking can cure the violence? Well, then, what good has throwing more bombs and fists accomplished? If that does not work but we keep doing it, do we not label ourselves as insane?

Perhaps the difficulty is that what we want is wrongly conceived: for we want our way to prevail. Why? So then we can live as we wish to live, without being bothered by others. We think peace will not get that, but look: we are the ones who have thus defined peace. But I lay before you a larger vision of peace: live as we wish, being enriched, encouraged and challenged by others; a fuller life, always fuller.

:- Doug.

You Latinos, you immigrants, I have a question for you: You see in the papers the news of the bombs in Lebanon and Israel. What have you learned in your struggle for freedom these last few months that might help these people?

For in helping another we see something new.

And in listening and speaking we begin to play, to open to a future that is being generous with us.

:- Doug.

Generosity, openness, creativity: these are woven together, sisters.

:- Doug.

G-d does not want us to love G-d: G-d wants us to love one another. In this one we love G-d.

:- Doug.

My best work comes when I mean someone, in generosity.

:- Doug.

You have no faith in yourself. You have no faith in the one who created creativity. For if you did you would get to play at the challenges of today.

:- Doug.