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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 844

When we in our projects objectify the other, make him or her an it-enemy, or even it-victim, we have done violence to ourselves and our future. We need to open doors; talk to strangers; get stranger ourselves. Yes, there are those out there who are sick and who will try to make us into their victim, but the response is not to shut out everyone, rather to open also to these, to help them with their dis-ease.

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This is not about spreading words. It is spreading people, engagement, action, spirit, community, G*d. It is stirring these things within us. It is working on finding the engagement with another which will stir these in widening circles. Being touched. Ripping, rippling.

:- Doug.

Why do we think it is not possible? Because we have not seen that before and cannot imagine it? Because we fear the selfish in people? Because we do not have faith in the value of what we invite?

:- Doug.

We need the more than rational. Rational is an animal killing a prey for food. Supra-rational is realizing the value of both lives. These are not opposites: we need both. We have both. If we suppress one part, we do not have a whole life. This is our higher way: life on the whole.

:- Doug.