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I-It is about technique and manipulation. These are useful in our world, but they are not real life. There is no technique to living fully: you simply live fully. You meet—life, which is to say the betweens you and the others in your life. Thus there are two ways to go through your years: with whatever technique you can devise; or meeting meeting. One is separation and the anxiety of it; the other is being whole, full and round, relaxed.

:- Doug.

Bare your vulnerabilities, sand your fingertips
Speak & hear & answer if you would live
Meet & meet & meet

:- Doug.

We must speak and hear and answer in order to live.

:- Doug.

Only two responses to the world
—Fear or love—
Choose

:- Doug.

Could we diagnose a conversation from different angles, a series of continua? Might this approach suggest paths through the woods?

It.....................Thou
surface................depth
generalities...........specifics
at.....................with
propound...............changed
scripted...............unexpected
formulaic..............new
avoiding...............candor
pasted-on smile........gritting the teeth
talk-talk-talk.........silence arises
feel smallness.........produces expansiveness

:- Doug.