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Ever what emerges is being.

:- Doug.

Towards where do we choose to evolve? Towards more life, towards more being, more I.

Then the question is how well can we make the centers, bring life and being and I, and probably not to how many. Quality attracts quantity better than quantity attracts quality.

:- Doug.

Remember too that beings nest—next to and within each other.

:- Doug.

What coheres in this complex of life?

:- Doug.

I am encouraging the world to become more alive.

:- Doug.

I craft living words.

:- Doug.

What I’m trying to grasp, to work out, is what my practice is. Right now I am working with the phrase “I’m intensifying beings.” Now beings might be my client going into a nursing home, or the document or poem I create to be somehow living and responsive, and the term beings is also much larger—it includes more than humans, more than sentient creatures, all the way to the stuff that fills the universe, unknowable as it is.

:- Doug.

I’m intensifying beings.

:- Doug.

G*d—we—intensify.

:- Doug.

1. We are part of I am there. This is called life.
2. We intensify I am there. This is called unity.
3. We intensify each other. This is called community.
4. We are only in relation. This is called meeting.
5. We most work for the whole doing what stirs us. This is called love.

:- Doug.

How do we widen the good conversations in nursing homes?

:- Doug.

Open space has freedom—to come together, to intensify whole being.

:- Doug.

How can we bring open space to nursing homes?

:- Doug.

How do we make beings in open space, in meeting? By unity, by I am there…

:- Doug.

Transform our world one good conversation at a time.

:- Doug.

The only way for something to get done is for people to work together; the only way for people to work together is to come together.

:- Doug.

I want profound conversation.

In open space or any other good conversation, beings are helping beings bring life to a larger whole. That’s why we see new things emerge. Lectures get one thing; people working together another; hearts and passions and commitment still more. Choose.

:- Doug.

What do I think? So far, I think: humans are flashing, sparkling; they are verb not noun, and the verbs are multitudes of synonyms for love; they are who they are in meeting and conversing and do not exist elsewhere; they are probably always in conversing, even when they do not recognize it.

In each of us are reflected all the others, met even if unmet.

:- Doug.

Who is a human being when mind and memory are out of the picture?

:- Doug.

What if what arises were the universal I? Among us we find we engender intimacy and action that touches the most personal and most in common.

:- Doug.

The I am moves.

:- Doug.

Look for the I am.

:- Doug.