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A fork does not exist all by itself in space. It is in my hand, which is held up by my muscles, in turn held up by my chair, the floor, the ground beneath, and the rock, all by the forces of gravity and muscular action. And even beyond that it is held by my intention and the intention of the metalworker, the designer, the aboriginal who wanted an easier way to hold down the squirming animal she was trying to cut. Webs within webs, wheels within wheels. Nothing alone. All one.

:- Doug.

The world is about relation and choosing. We are related to all there is; daily we choose how to stick our noses in.

:- Doug.

Before I pull out of my drive, if I want to go to California it is useful to look at a map and see it is West and a little South of South Bend. It helps in making the mile by mile decisions. Seeing a big picture is useful. That’s probably why I like philosophy and theology.

:- Doug.

What if we need no scientific theory of everything, but if indeed something like it already existed in quantum physics? w\What if we had found the minute building blocks and they were indeed telling us we lived in a world of choice and not determinacy, a world of interrelatedness and interconnection instead of objective separation within here, out there, a world bizarre? What if all along our pictures-theories had been collapsing all possibilities into this one we aloofly measured?

:- Doug.

The goal of goal setting is to place reality under control—something inherently impossible and ultimately boring.

:- Doug.

To keep us in our self-imposed walls, to keep us from growing, from transcending, takes a lot of dusting.

Spirits are killed by the necessity of unnecessary drudgery.

:- Doug.

I am there to be there
I am there to meet

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1211

Stick your nose in: it belongs!

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To converse is to be
To be is to converse
I converse: I am

:- Doug.

Meditation is engaging our surroundings. Contemplation is engaging G*d and the world.

:- Doug.

I converse. That’s who I am.

:- Doug.

What wonder to have been the first human to look up and…reflect!

To see shapes drawn by the twigs of the trees, the birds cutting the air!

:- Doug.

In the light of inviting, freeing, and calling whole mmmm….

:- Doug.

Not that I should just take on every project, but I need to poke my head out of the shell more often….

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1210

Perhaps only when you’re new to the practice of life can you have it figured out. But we go forward anyway, my friends.

I may not fully know what I am doing, might not have the words or even the concepts to describe it, but just keep going forward, anyway.

I do not clearly see where this will take me. Go anyway.

I do not have a plan. Go anyway.

Shall I write and publish? Go anyway.

Shall I invite living room dialogues and retreats? Go anyway.

Go anyway. Do anyway. Invite anyway.

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Explore your boundaries
They may be further out
Than you hoped

:- Doug.

Curious about conversation. That’s me.

:- Doug.

Death is something I for now think I do not want to miss. I do not want to be on morphine or other substance to make me sleep through death. I want to be thoroughly alert. For I suspect there is a whole-making going on for me and those around me.

:- Doug.

Dull the pain, dull the joy, dull the life.

:- Doug.

On probate and lawyers: Accept the assistance of another human being who seeks to ease the way for you. Muzzle not the ox who tramples grain for you—pay him or her for helping. Do not expect something for nothing—of such is the nature of greed. There is work to be done, debts and taxes to be settled. These are not avoided by some magical scheme.

:- Doug.