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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1031

I do not know if I have had the experience of someone telling me my story, but I do know that often when someone tells me a story it reminds me of my own. This I think is a common experience. Today I must listen for my story in every story. This insight is profound, it goes in circles, for we may see as holy the story of all others and of ourselves, even when we think it unworthy. Especially then.

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The important thing is a story.

Even in meeting, what is important is the story: the story we learn of the other, the story we make together. Story is of action, and of meaning, and of courage for the hearer to move.

:- Doug.

Grey hair is not the product of old age, but its harbinger.

:- Doug.

The within for us humans is in large measure between us.

This is certainly true. We carry each other in our heads and hearts: indeed, we are Indra’s net: in each of us you can meet all of us. We have pictures of those near us in our consciousness, we carry special teachers and lovers with us, we hear echoes of the the voices meaningful to us, and we have all evil and all good in us. We cannot move except in society; even the hermits among us need us and we them: they are among us. We are in a net of each-otherness. Everything we do touches another and we feel the touches of others every moment.

:- Doug.

The system is neither bad nor good: it is something that can smooth our way or get in our way. Mostly, it gets in our way because it is designed to be unchanging. We think we can solve ourselves once for all.

:- Doug.

Let us occupy our hearts, minds and time in community work, bringing people together in conversation to make good happen.

:- Doug.