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We ever come back to eat what we have become in our prior days—if hate, foul hate—if love, savory love.

:- Doug.

Reach out and let someone touch you.

:- Doug.

When does It have more life than Whole-making? When Whole-making becomes a head game. We need then to be reminded to embody.

:- Doug.

It’s simple. Choose life. At every step choose life. Is more life in It or Thou? Thou or Us? Us or Sacred? Sacred or Whole making? Whole making or It? At every step. Choose life.

:- Doug.

The still point beneath all turning: like the still point of neither inhaling nor exhaling, it is here where we most profoundly meet, here, the place of the glance, of being seen, of hearing and realizing we are of one flesh.

:- Doug.

As our conversing, so the world. We talk about wars or we talk about helping one another: whatever our conversing grows. Do we want beatings to continue, or babies to grow and play?

:- Doug.

Conversing is not words
Conversing is meeting
another sentient being
Conversing is the still point beneath
the still point of all turning.

:- Doug.

Conversing is serving.

:- Doug.

Worship means service. The root for the words from which we take our notion of worship means to serve God. We serve God by praising, but we also serve by hearing. “They also serve who only sit and wait.” So it is truly service, truly worship, to sit in silence in Meeting.

:- Doug.

As the conversation, so the world. Invite bigger talk.

:- Doug.

Invite conversations that change things.

:- Doug.

We need conversation of a richer quality: interweaving, creating, good, true, beautiful, simple, complex.

:- Doug.

There seems to be no instruction manual for the earth, so we are left to our own devices. Mostly we have left others to their devices.

:- Doug.

The kind of conversation we seek is of a different quality—we reach into each other, into essences beyond each other.

:- Doug.

We think of depth as down, beneath our feet or in the center of our heart. But remember that we also talk of height, width and depth, and here we see depth of field as the photographers do. What might that say to us? What might depth also be?

Depth might be less inside ourselves and under our feet and more in other persons and particularly between and among.

:- Doug.

If we turn our vision around and looked where we don’t normally look, if we look forward and back and up and down and into our own eyes, what might we see?

:- Doug.

I have been thinking of generations, how as we get older we have the opportunity to see further than ever before in our lives. We can, if we look, see for seven generations: We might be able to remember our great grandmother; and we might be fortunate enough to hold or even play with our great grandchildren. Seven generations that is! What can you see in those seven generations? What is possible for those seven generations after us?

What is possible for those generations? Might they reach the times that the prophet called us to, when we would not have to tell each other “Remember the Lord” but would carry divinity in our hearts? Could we help them reach for those times?

Might they reach the end of the planet or of human civilization? Might there be wars that destroy us? Might there be diseases they cure, new diseases they die from? Might they turn from the tyranny of Dollars and What’s in it for me in time to play with their children and grandchildren? What are we doing, now and in our Wills to turn the course one way or the other?

:- Doug.

The still point of the turning world: you are, I am.

:- Doug.

A Community Disorganizer is a world re-orienter.

:- Doug.

I don’t expect the President of the United States to change the world. I expect the people of the world to change whatever’s going to change in the world —by what they do in their neighborhoods— whether their neighbors are next door or halfway around the world.

:- Doug.

There are for me at least two levels of centering and release: the first is when my mind says it is centered, and the second is when my mind actually releases and lets me drop into emptiness.

:- Doug.

Any disturbance I feel comes from inside me.

:- Doug.

If you are without cash in the bank, you have done a good job of keeping all your resources working, with nothing left over. If you have accumulated a lot, you have merely been good at not investing in the world and its work. It is a difference of focus: self or world.

:- Doug.