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You’ve traversed the horizon touched
all the petals of the compass rose but
have you been startled by verticality?

:- Doug.

A spiritual project can easily traverse 300 years.

:- Doug.

Meg Wheatley’s “We become hopeful when somebody tells the truth” and Jane Fonda’s “restoring relatedness to the therapeutic relationship is what heals” are saying the same thing: hope can be defined as healing, and open conversation brings healing, wholeness. We never get perfectly whole: we get more perfect, differently whole.

:- Doug.

You who work in nursing homes:
You work with people (I hope)
Do you see more deficits or more worth?

:- Doug.

We have a word we already use for God
Spirit
Insubstantial, seminal

:- Doug.

To say too much is to build a mountain over a living seed.

:- Doug.

Conversation is a little death, a sacrifice you can make of your life, a putting someone else at your center and so transcend your self.

:- Doug.

Why do we care about the generations? It is simply to pass on the genome?

:- Doug.

Re-orient the human.

:- Doug.

God I am seeing is more amorphous, diaphanous, see-through, dispersed, ethereal, moving, than I had thought.

:- Doug.