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My interest is in seeing that people are ennobled to do the very best and most they will do. Anything we do which can loosen more strings, more strands and weights on them, we owe it to them to do.

:- Doug.

Instead of “holding back” speak of “setting free.”

Instead of “you don’t trust these people” say “we must persuade ourselves these people can be trusted.”

Instead of “don’t wait till they know all you know” say “let’s make use of what all they know.”

These are ways, and there are many more, to be loving and to demonstrate love for these people.

Make light fun of yourself, such as: I used to think I could control what people did, but my kids taught me otherwise.

:- Doug.

What do I truly like? The same as we all do: Meeting, doing good, making the world better in some real way. Whom do I truly like? People who are vulnerable, stretching. When we stretch we are vulnerable. We are lovable.

:- Doug.

I want to so live my days that I can say I truly liked what I made and whom I met.

:- Doug.

People can be trusted to be respectful, good, kind, creative, profound, adult, effective, collaborative, and amazing!

:- Doug.

The first way people express themselves is by naming their topic or their passion.

:- Doug.

How smart are the people here?
How involved are the people here?
What could we get people talking about?
What would you love to have happen?

:- Doug.

Our return on investment in “sustainability:” life.

:- Doug.

“Recruiting top talent” is a phrase a speaker just used—what if everyone’s top talent were welcomed, sought, developed?

:- Doug.

Goals are wishful thinking: as much as you try, you can little control your own actions; still less those of others; and the world has a habit of not holding still as our target.

:- Doug.

It’s about life.

:- Doug.

What is deepest and truest and most profound in each of us and is deepest and truest and most profound among us is deepest and truest and most profound.

:- Doug.

The work is small groups bringing to their village life.

:- Doug.

In the deepest essence of ourselves together we find the deepest essence of all there is. In pleasing this we please that, in giving this life we give that life.

And so we are not so very far from it. It is here inside together. We can touch and do this.

:- Doug.

Getting in touch with our own deeper essence—our shared underlying essence—is the essential thing to do to make the world work for all.

:- Doug.

We can make it wonderful
We make it wonderful
We.

:- Doug.

Our impending death
Carries with it all
Life, grief, hope, action, dying
It touches the quick
Of our existence on this earth
We can touch others
We can push them to help them
We need to try almost anything
Find tears
A dying whisper tells the life
Modern is an excuse
To avoid being real
There is only one I,
One life, one shining
Tears shine

:- Doug.

Sadness knows
Joy is not separate
Sadness embraces Joy

:- Doug.

Life is good
Sneezing is grand
Loving is wonderful

:- Doug.

Ahh, Friend
Rhythm, Ground
Sadness, Wholeness
Fullness, Completeness
Allness
Mine

:- Doug.

This is about intensifying life. If we have eyes to see: life is between, among us. It continues even if one dies. One cannot have life alone. Could this be true? So to intensify means meeting, intensifying at least one other.

:- Doug.

To what will we give our hearts? This is a more profound question than it might seem—it is so central, so coeur. Where is my heart wanting to give itself? For in giving we intensify our hearts.

:- Doug.

Move into the rhythm
listen for the beat of life

:- Doug.