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There is a systolic and a diastolic in our meetings. Messiness rules! Both are necessary—coming together and moving out. So the way of union and wholeness is far beyond unanimity: it runs the way of converging, ever reaching for, never reaching, one mutually attractive land. This is as it should be: no two people have in mind the same exact land. The cacophony of an orchestra tuning up is the work of approaching harmony—of many distinct voices. They are never perfectly in tune, but they get close enough.

:- Doug.

It may not be accurate to say divinity moves nor that a human moves, for it implies first they are separate, second they only move separately, and third the source of the movement is from one or both. Pour two chemicals into a beaker and you get a strong action which neither takes alone—nor could.

:- Doug.

Who are these who dare
To set the center of their being
Outside themselves?
I might yet
I might now

:- Doug.

The center of an ego
Cannot align with
The center of humanity

:- Doug.

Open Space is an invitational form of meeting: evocative, egalitarian, emergent, welcoming any input and outcome, lightly holding possibilities of transformation and likelihood of a break with the past.

:- Doug.

What we do for good has momentum
It goes on forever
Unless someone steps in to
Stop or redirect it
So we have the power
We seldom use
To step in and stop or redirect
Forces moving against life

:- Doug.

Sometimes caring is bringing families to their elemental togetherness.

:- Doug.

Who is wise
and who is otherwise?

:- Doug.

It’s a sacred quantum leap-frog world.

:- Doug.

Better we do not so much get answers
As responses—
Ideas previously unthought
Meanings previously not so fully recognized
Possibilities discontinuous with the past
Evocations, clues, and hints
To who we are in chrysalis

:- Doug.

In this world of immanent sacredness
Transcendence is met when
The heart is broken open to let
Intimacy spill in

:- Doug.

Insights are events
They speak to us of something larger
—Ourselves—
Events and selves
Clear today surprised tomorrow

:- Doug.

To pray can mean seeking
—withness and embrace
—a felt touching of and intimacy with larger flows
To pray can mean bringing these about

:- Doug.

The lifeblood of all is life
We work toward greater or lesser
Wholeness and interdependence

:- Doug.