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Sometimes to see the really real you need to close your eyes.

:- Doug.

There is something here, something among delusions and seeing what’s real and diversity and insanity and ordering and chaos and disorganizing: what? We need to strive to see what is really there and to create what is not. This is the only way of love.

:- Doug.

Freedom and chaos are sisters. Their rival brother and sister are order and security. Their daughters are creativity, and their mother is love.

:- Doug.

Diversity spells seeing more widely so we will create more profusely. Life is about living and therefore about interacting with our environment and therefore about creating something new, always creating something new. This is love.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1022

Many times I feel like a mere prawn on a chessboard.

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God could not have created if all were permanently ordered. God created such a diversity and cornucopia of species and things that freedom was the very essence of his game.

:- Doug.

I want us all to see reality, to work in reality as our medium.

:- Doug.

The notion that order only is good is too limited and limiting for human life. It was devised by those who saw their lives as dependent upon it, those who saw the beauty of it, those who fell in love with it. But it is a delusion to see as good only order. One needs solids and liquids to live, and more liquids than we first realized.

:- Doug.

Ordering is good, but too much order and you have rows of gravestones planted. Chaos—diversity—in at least a small quantity is necessary for life.

:- Doug.

We are all under delusions, probably all the time. How can we see what we do not see? A fine question, that! Probably the question of the ages.

:- Doug.

It is through ordering and organizing things that we limit one another’s freedom. It is through bringing diverse persons together that we create.

:- Doug.

Insanity believes delusions; but are delusions a way of seeing with more freedom; at least do some of them break out of our spell into a larger reality?

:- Doug.

I cannot believe in a Bible or parts of it written by men who confound the world with the notion that God is order against chaos. I look around and see nothing but freedom: this bird can fly north or can fly south by west by up; that woman can walk right or left. Only those who want their targets to stand still tout order over chaos.

:- Doug.

I meet God in conversing.

:- Doug.

If my work is about anything, it is about conversing.

:- Doug.

What has a head
& mouth
& no eyes
Yet wants to go someplace
Stretches forth
& gives
Life?

:- Doug.

What can we together do to make this a better community?

:- Doug.

I learned how wonderful, creative, holy, wise, beautiful and complete is the written word. Then I remembered where I read this.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1083

Life beats you up
No, life makes tender
Life softens
Life shows
You are part of all

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Take no thought for the morrow
All these things will be added unto you:
All these are in the air
Part of how the Whole works

Enriching one’s life destroys one’s life
Nourishing Life is the way
Serve the ever larger

:- Doug.

All of ethics, all of the commandments, including the central one to love, are resolved in this one thing: to bring life to the whole.

This does not mean sacrificing one’s self, but it does not mean less than sacrificing one’s self. The price of life is to give one’s life utterly, completely. We become bigger when we give ourselves away.

:- Doug.

Be fruitful
Bring life

:- Doug.

Hear and love

:- Doug.