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My tools are specific. They go deeper and more precisely into persons than the brain and even than the heart: to a place among and beyond (poetry, wholemaking). These tools are easily identifiable, democratically usable, freely available, the tools of the human beast. Life is both particle and wave: the work then is to remind people. In this culture, where we think particle almost exclusively, we need to be reminded of our wave nature.

:- Doug.

Use the tools of sound light vibration wave—story question paradox richness aha wildfire.

:- Doug.

Try paradox: marry the opposites; show us our richness; see the complements that birth life.

:- Doug.

Place to place to place
Among
Setting wildfires
Of aha!

:- Doug.

I’m delving deeply into the human—deeper than the head, a cone that points deeper than the heart, deeper larger to our most expressive, to tears and flowers, shared.

:- Doug.

I need to run
Yet all I can
Is plod, stumble, fall
This is dreaming
Real life
Feels like plodding
We do stumble and fall
Thus we progress
Thus we run

:- Doug.

Pray what you want for today; pray what you want for the people of God for eternity. A prayer for us all.

:- Doug.

What is wild fierce & feral in you
Brings life
What is tamed ordered weeded
Brings food
Tho’ we need both to live
We think taming more important
Thoughts are part
Life calls us whole

:- Doug.

What is the vision vibrating through all of creation?

What is the vision vibrating through me, from my earliest years to now, the reason and purpose for which I am hear? What is the fierce and feral wild part of me that spouts life? Don’t worry why I have not been giving it voice, just go out and do!

:- Doug.

When you invite the best and highest in people to swirl among us then you have increased the chances of getting something of healing and largeness. When you rip the grey cloth over people’s heads, do not be surprised that colors pour forth!

:- Doug.

Of veils and visions:
Of sharing for the peoples to see—
And dance!
There is something of mystery
In the people
Among and Beyond
Rip the veils
Contents spill forth
No longer contained
Washing the world!

:- Doug.

The fact of the matter is simple: if we want more of the same, then we should do more of the same. If we want something different, we should proceed to invite it, as fearsome as it might be.

:- Doug.

Have you ever felt like singing?
That’s it!
Have you ever seen the world
For a moment look sharper, crisper?
That’s it!
Have you ever done
Something for another, secretly?
That’s it!

:- Doug.

Visionary.
Unknown.
Letting go.
Fingertips alert.
Being born.
Compassion.
Service to each other.
Exploring for something new.
We are the ones for whom we have been waiting. We.

:- Doug.

Haiti: an impoverished people who see that they can. They show us: if they can, we can.

:- Doug.

It is not primarily about action for me—it is about whole-making, which is a certain kind of action. It is bringing people together to see that they own the world and make it whole.

:- Doug.

There is something large in each one: meaningful conversation evokes this in each other, connecting up these larger essences.

:- Doug.

It takes us all
To listen to the whole
To hear
To gather in the whole picture

It takes us all
Ignoring
Seeing only our ego
To allow us to go astray

It takes us all
Paying attention
To the best & highest
To make us whole

:- Doug.

Reverence for conversation

:- Doug.

I am large
Not in myself, yet in the whole
Of which I am a required part
I carry universes
Their rhythm, their melody, their
One life, One being, One loving
Become embodied through me

:- Doug.

I sat in our circle. People actually listened to me. I found myself heard by others, my contribution respected and built upon. But more: I heard myself—heard myself as part of a larger heartbeat, a larger mystery.

:- Doug.

In OS we are working from whole to individuals rather than the other way round.

We are not pasting a bunch of particles together; rather are we discovering ourselves as part of the one all. We discover facets of ourselves we could not have known separately.

:- Doug.

Gifts from conversation:
Being heard by others
Being heard by myself
Hearing others
Hearing the collective
Hearing the larger
Hearing the larger within myself
Getting us doing

:- Doug.