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It takes time but worse than that it takes effort to reach your remorse to reactivate memories of your highest the effort of watering a seed and waiting and seeing your knees are dirty so dirty you cannot get the stain out. From that stain how did we get hope and beauty?

:- Doug.

There is a vacuity and emptiness in our goal-driven Dollars and Numbers culture. We contribute to it every day. To grow from here will take a turn of heart. Only this, but no less than this.

One person or a few cannot fix the ecology by changing more light bulbs and recycling more; we cannot free the peoples by marching on Athens; we cannot with our science bring back the honey bees and lightning bugs. What we can do is what only individuals and especially small groups of people can do, and it is much harder: we must change our thinking, change our hearts.

:- Doug.

We can help people become transformed by touching them in the depths of their hearts. These depths might be made of only two elements: soul-joy and soul-pain. Soul means something that is at being level, that resides in our naked guts. Soul-pain might actually be deeper and more fundamental. Or maybe we wish not to go there, so it becomes more and more a shadow to us. When we get here, it feels like a cracking-open.

:- Doug.