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What does personal mean to me? 1. It means aimed at a particular person, in the sense of inviting meeting. 2. It has a characteristic of me and we. Like the sign I saw today “lease me,” it tugs at something inside us, saying “we are of the same stuff.” 3. It therefore says we are united, connected, one, in some real way. 4. It invites a mutuality in each of these three things.

So a personal world would likely have these same characteristics: 1. This world would be aimed at me and want to meet me; 2. I would understand this world as composed of the same stuff as me; 3. The world and I would comprise a single we; 4. I would be drawn to say these same things to the world—we are of the same stuff, we are one, I want to meet you.

:- Doug.

The world is personal. Spirit and spirit flow into each other, are never separate.

This is not something for head nor for heart but for gut. We must assimilate, take in, blend with the knowing that the world is personal.

We must meet the world. We must meet each other. We must meet ourselves. We must meet. If we avoid it, we avoid our selves, our deepest selves.

Our deepest selves are our connected selves. We are not just—nor even primarily—individuals, but are rather we: one whole life, moving, personal.

So life is whole, personal, moving.

:- Doug.

The world is personal. G*d is personal. We each and together play a role in our family and community. Family is personal. Community is personal. Own them! Work on and with them. Meet them. They seek to meet you.

:- Doug.

Three things to keep in mind and heart: the world is: personal, whole, moving.

:- Doug.

Scotus Erigena says God is not a what but a That. G*d is no thing but is there, here.

:- Doug.

In a personal world, the flow is conversation. We meet the world, we speak to the birds and plants (even modern people do!), we are touched by sunsets and turtle doves and spiders and snakes. And why not? We are of the very same fabric as they, we are unfolded at the same time from the same weave.

:- Doug.

We are the holo—that’s why it feels personal: my soul, our soul.

:- Doug.

When we see largely we are enabled to work profoundly.

:- Doug.

Elder law proposes a new practice of family. Community Disorganizing proposes a new practice of community family.

:- Doug.

I work for life. Life is the pen name of G*d.

:- Doug.

Let us remind ourselves we are friends—in community and in family.

:- Doug.

The holomovement has brought up this family, this village. It will dissolve it again. Nothing is lost, all returns. Community is thrum; family is thrum.

:- Doug.

This is about love with work gloves and boots.

:- Doug.

Is the process complete? Is the circle whole?

:- Doug.

In a world of process, conversation is its primary human dimension.

:- Doug.

The world is movement and process, traffic, commerce, intercourse, conversation is its human dimension. This is how movement manifests itself—becomes palpable—manipulates the world—among humans.

:- Doug.

Carry your message; judge it not.

:- Doug.

We don’t need to make decisions
We need to hold ourselves in conversations

:- Doug.

There is something larger here when people meet. There is a spark, a reverberation, a tingling of something deeper than everyday. And still it is of the everyday and seeks to touch and mold the everyday, to make it recognize it as sacred, holy, serious and playful. It sometimes first appears as an us. It seeks to be personal. This something means us: we assimilate each other.

:- Doug.

I invite families to take responsibility for each other.

:- Doug.

Invite people to dream and scheme together.

:- Doug.

How effective is our life together?

:- Doug.

Responsibility is unleashed by seeing others who share our passions.

:- Doug.