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Am I
is he or she
is the really real
good or bad?
black or white
for me or against me
transcendent or imminent
this or that?
Now arises an inkling—
could be both
& all

:- Doug.

Union means action
Union with God means action

:- Doug.

I have decided that all people until proven otherwise are my soul-mates, on the same walk as me, working for the common good.

:- Doug.

Speak to the spark
Left inside you by creation
Inside others, inside yourself

:- Doug.

You are divine when—and because—you create—What will satisfy the soul except to make your best—to give your all—for the world?

:- Doug.

In conversations with Doctors I have found they are at a big loss, maybe bigger than the rest of us, about how to get this end of life conversation spreading.

:- Doug.

The difference between listening and hearing is like that between issuing an invitation and accepting one. Both are good; one is done to another and the other is done with. Hearing is more good-natured, accepting more of the other.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1265

Say to your friend
—We’re all friends, yes?—
You’ve something good to share!

Please pass it on.

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Once we see that people want to connect heart level with us, it changes us. We become more attractive perhaps, but others are more attractive to us: we are not selling but simply a part of their divinity.

:- Doug.

Once in a while it is fun to make a conversation into an interview: not as investigatory journalists, but as exploratory, looking for the light flashing between and among: finding the gems, teasing out the germs of ideas.

:- Doug.

I wish to examine how I do things, the extent to which I am open. Can I hear out others? Can I take their opposing positions and allow them, without needing to counter?

:- Doug.

More valued this conversation
becomes as it moves
from head
to heart
to viscera

:- Doug.

Death is not the enemy
of life
rather a part of it
of me
rather one of my chapters

:- Doug.

Tiny bird, I’ve not seen you before
hopping among the grasses
life interacting with life, conversing
the grasses, living, are in your way
you are looking for a mite or a worm
among them hidden
and yet you could not say
if you had speech
that these grasses are in your way
for they provide habitat for your meal
but maybe you already understood

:- Doug.

Unexpectedly high a butterfly climbs
Through the tree
Through the wind
Quickly finding its way

I could not so easily avoid limbs and leaves
But the butterfly is used to
Her own speed
She calls to me

And even my eyes that fast
Do not go
She is gone

But I have followed
A step or two

:- Doug.

If I am feeling opposed, mostly I oppose myself:
mainly within my head and my worrying
Open flower, hear, allow in the wings buzzing and whispering

:- Doug.

In our society, we do not know how to converse. We must invent it as we go along.

;- Doug.

Nickel in, product out:
G*d is not a vending machine!
More a flower opening
Unbidden, not worked for
Soft scents wafting

:- Doug.

We can have the world we want. We can have the family we want. We all want pretty much the same things: peace, being heard, meeting and loving others, being part, being with ones we love to be with. Only the selfish suppose that if they are to get what they want they have to keep us from getting what we want. So we have to work together, from the bottom up, to have the world we want, the family we want. It is possible. We can start today. We.

:- Doug.

Let us sit in each other’s presence

:- Doug.

You speak to me in myriad ways
& that I cannot still
& yet can I my pen set down
to feel your touch & hear your peoples
& that & that we’ll never still

:- Doug.

Words are how you have been speaking to me, or rather how I (think I) have been hearing you. Of course you can speak other languages: touch, rhythm, story, silence.

Silence, then; silence, Now. You.

:- Doug.

Saddened immensely I am when I hear of someone burning their work: they have kept it from others who might from there take off. Or maybe it would hold back some or all of us. How can we know?

I think we need to reach out and make whole where and when and how we can. Ours is not to question its effectiveness or even wisdom.

:- Doug.