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We bring the future forth only together.

:- Doug.

There is a force divine that we find ourselves within, and we are a part of it, we share its essence. When in conversation, we are in that force divine and sometimes almost conscious of it. There is a lift, a hope, a drawing together that is of love. This whole is creative energy and flows through us when we come together. When we separate ourselves we cut ourselves off. When we come together we participate in the unfolding which decides the direction of the future.

This is the way it has been always. The clan, the tribe sat around the fire. The king gathered round his knights and vassals. The people who saw they could be in charge gathered in counsel together.

:- Doug.

As we hear each other our vision improves, for we share others’ views.

:- Doug.

Our meetings so often fail because our meetings so often provide no opportunity to meet.

:- Doug.

The mourning is with a purpose—to deny the reign. & we are all the monarch.

:- Doug.

We do not want to be saved: we want to be wholly thrown away!

:- Doug.

Present, I AM THERE, Immanuel, sees you when you’re sleeping…, before the world I am, of Abraham, love—all these say:

The world is not: God is each thing (pantheos); nor yet God is in each thing (panentheos): more truly G*d is the whole.

:- Doug.

We spend so much time in discussion—little brother of percussion and concussion—beating things up, striking, shaking, fragmenting—that we have the fruits of it: beaten and submissive, we no longer remember that the world is up to us, and we do not see how to unscramble that egg.

:- Doug.

Organizations present us with structure which serves to direct and limit our efforts to specific tasks. Valuable in this, but when we allow limits on our minds and music, dangerous. We need give them their due and no more: necessary beyond are community disorganizers.

:- Doug.

We each have a view distinct of the whole, the divine. As we hear each other, our picture becomes more whole. Never complete, for we are viewing divinity from the inside.

:- Doug.

What makes us is whom we are among and within: the force divine.

:- Doug.

The whole is a Thou.

:- Doug.

You want a commodity Will: That is not the kind of Will I do, and no one does well for you who does that. Every Will is for a particular person. The Wills of Husbands and Wives always mean different things to each of them, and are always different one from the other. Wills are snowflakes: no two alike.

:- Doug.

Concentrate on the larger, the more complex, the important, the dangerous, the fires.

This is not about larger things, necessarily, but more difficult—knotty, rocky, tangled and vexed.

The answer to such problems is to find a way forward together.

:- Doug.

Yes I am a Community Disorganizer—because we have active hate and distrust, and people face impossible odds. I am Red Adair for people fires.

:- Doug.

What is the biggest problem of your community today? Where is the largest groaning, bloodshed, pain? What is the most complex impossible problem you face?

:- Doug.

Ahh! So I have been trying to do two things wrong: putting new wine in old skins (explaining and selling); and pouring from tanker trucks into tea cups.

:- Doug.

We are starting a new movement in American history—neighbor helping neighbor—picking us up by each other’s bootstraps.

:- Doug.

This is a grand experiment to see how far we can get to perfecting the world.

:- Doug.

We have an opportunity to change the world. Make sure you’re not in this just to find a job.

:- Doug.

Let us be people in the grow.

:- Doug.

Relating is the ground beneath doing and being.

:- Doug.

Life is not about doing, or even being, but relating.

:- Doug.