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The something being done of necessity is good, for destruction is undoing. A negative is a nothing. It is sometimes the work of a shrinking, pain-engulfed ego. To say we are going to work together to do something then makes it clear it is a positive good, not a harm. A harm merely takes away, subtracts, and subtracting is not doing. Ultimately you end up with nothing. Less than nothing is not possible, so to work at harm is to work for nothing. Nothing is left behind, the person is not built up, but torn down, there is no Being to this actor. The Being is the eternal part of the human Doing/Becoming, and if the Doing is nothing, Being is not.

Holding other people at bay, keeping them outside our circle, is the same thing: negativing. We are negativing them, subtracting them from us, and in so doing we are becoming naught.

:- Doug.

Conscious conversation is both a starter of and a companion to conscious evolution. Conversation in the sense of meeting and intercourse is necessary for such conscious evolution, but not sufficient—there needs to be something to flow along its sluiceways. That something is desire to do something together, acting upon each other or upon the world. In this doing is expressed our being, and the thing done creates, in Blake’s terms, our form, image and Being. Doings are the fiery stones out of which Being is made.

:- Doug.

Let us create
conversation came before creation
conscious conversation
has to come before we
can arrive at conscious evolution

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 756

Pulling the grey cloth overhead
do we choose to sleep some more?
Instead, selecting threads
we can weave with one another
a web of gossamer upon which
the lightest touch can alert
setting to the work of imagination
this whole woven body

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