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Caring: a state of mind and heart toward a You
Care: a thing done to one conceived of as an It

:- Doug.

Found: Caring in an uncaring system

:- Doug.

To love another is to engage
To engage another is to love
Meet
All action is meeting
Meeting action

:- Doug.

We live for knowledge
We love for mystery

:- Doug.

Healing you are

:- Doug.

Healing G*d is

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We live in a world healing: will we choose to heal?

:- Doug.

The gentle breeze brings fresh air; turn your face and breathe it in.

:- Doug.

How do we break out of our tedious thinking except we let in something new?

:- Doug.

My work is healing, making whole, the life of the people who touch mine.

:- Doug.

To heal we need to step outside ourselves. A physician cannot worry about catching the disease while she is applying her healing touch. Nor can we. We must boldly meet each other, do what we can do, offer our being. It could be scary opening ourselves if we took precious time to think about ourselves; so instead we get to work offering our gentle touch.

:- Doug.

A dance! We heal so that we can live fully; we live fully to be whole.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1152

The street dervish sees the redbud tree, the white flowers on the pear tree, and sees through them to the fruit in the fall. But what of the redbud he asks: it bears no fruit but seed pods, and its flowers are but for a few days. Its flowers come first with a promise and a fulfillment before the long work of the summer. What is going on here?, asks the dervish. Nature giving the beauty, the bounteous payoff before the work? Smiling he sets to dancing….

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We are all we have. Or if you prefer, we are the only hands of God here now. We need to get to work. We’re the ones here; it’s our job.

:- Doug.

The healing, wholing practice of the lawyer, and of the community disorganizer is bringing us together, turning us to one another.

:- Doug.

Let us stand
Outside ourselves
See whom we can hear
Beyond! Beyond!
Whom are we beyond?

:- Doug.

I live in the middle of the sun and all about me are the rays of the divine. All is afire and exploding outward, embracing.

:- Doug.

Let me live! What’s all this work stuff interrupting life? Living has its own work to do: can we have our work serve this?

:- Doug.

Compassion is the way of life:
life is in love,
in engaging the holy, the other
Engaging is
becoming one with the wholly other,
allowing yourself to grow outward
Holy, holy, holy:
different, different, different;
other, other, other:
yet drawing us to to the holy different other
Stand here and the winds will
permeate us,
carry us out,
intermingle us with the
larger, larger
Compassion is the way of life

:- Doug.

Life is love; it is interaction with others in our environs. It is touching and being touched, and working, working for the better of betweens and amongs.

:- Doug.

It is the only way out. Conversation enables us to escape ourselves. Conversation makes our boundaries permeable: to each other, to betweens, to amongs, to poetry, and finally to whole-making.

:- Doug.

The first work is to help families and communities live as fully as they can, whatever their stage of life: sick and fragile; young and athletic; wise and seeking the holy. All alive can live well now.

:- Doug.

The government is out of money. If children are to receive the education and especially attention they need, it is up to us to do this work of love. We must become the schools. We must become the government. After all, we already are. She’s not a budget, she’s a child. She’s a human being, a person. She’s a terrible one to waste. We have some tough choices, so keeping in mind what’s most important will make it easier. Which is more important—our wallets or our children?

:- Doug.