Archive for May, 2014

We don’t know the people around us well enough

We don’t know the people around us well enough. We are ignorant of the people who want to help us and what help we can be for them.

:- Doug.

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What is beyond meaning?

What is beyond meaning? Value?

:- Doug.

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It’s hard to meet fear, yes?

It’s hard to meet fear, yes? Especially when we are afraid to call it fear.

:- Doug.

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bringing our words to life

Conversation: bringing our words to life. We add life to our words; our words add to life.

:- Doug.

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unfolding—movement—goodness

unfolding—movement—goodness
participation—meeting—beauty
coherence—oneness—truth

:- Doug.

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Change how we voice

Change how we voice
Change how we hear
Change how we shape our world

:- Doug.

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respiration of the ego

There’s a respiration of the ego too: we shrink to a dot then contain galaxies.

:- Doug.

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You cannot digest a person whole

You cannot digest a person whole the first meeting. Neither should you try to compact your whole wisdom into one sentence.

:- Doug.

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“Meeting will take too much time.”

“Meeting will take too much time.”

“That depends on what you mean by time. And take. And how you mean too much. And by meeting. And what you would do in the alternative.”

:- Doug.

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Get wiser together

Come, let us sit and get wiser together.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 30th, 2014 | No Comments »

No, that’s not true

Don’t fit the learning to the model, but vice versa. No, that’s not true: we can derive lessons from a bird’s antics and we can use the bird’s antics to understand what we have already discerned.

:- Doug.

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Cassette-tape time and solid state time

Cassette-tape time is kronos time: time felt as sequential. Solid state time is kairos time: hours and moments, past present and future accessed at once, even all at once.

:- Doug.

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Opening space for groups to intuit

Open Space Technology opens space for groups to intuit—a flash of intuition can give clearer results than trying to reason out or research.

:- Doug.

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Actors ought not portray all nuances in each scene

Actors ought not portray all nuances of their character in each scene: one aspect per scene: let the audience add it up. So to for writers: let the readers do the adding.

:- Doug.

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Surprising conversation

Surprising conversation.

:- Doug.

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Whatever you think you read, attend here

Whatever you think you read, attend here.

:- Doug.

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You sit in front of a teacher

If you sit in front of a teacher, you are granting that this person knows something you do not, and you need to know that. That might not be so. On the other hand it is likely that every person in whatever room you enter knows something you do not, and that among them are some you need to know.

:- Doug.

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let go the spell of words

To delve the mysteries
Let go the spell of words
…Find…the….

:- Doug.

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Why do you want to gather people?

Why do you want to gather people?

:- Doug.

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Inviting people who care

Open Space invites people who care to surface meanings and begin taking action.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 29th, 2014 | No Comments »

Invite to consider deeper aspects of getting things done

Invite those who like Open Space to gather to consider the deeper aspects and see how to use it to get things done.

:- Doug.

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Stillness is movement too

Stillness is movement too.

:- Doug.

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Seek not to multi-task

Seek not to multi-task
Don’t pull yourself to pieces, stay together
Move little or much, precisely as
Luxuriantly as you need
Time has many dimensions
Many tributaries fractal
Times parallel and interleave

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 29th, 2014 | No Comments »
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