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G*d wants all of you, and the only way to get it is if you give it. The world your spouse your children your grandchildren your community want all of you—and you cannot decide or for some other reason or none at all, withhold. Thus G*d meets your face and invites you to turn back to G*d’s face. Trust the people, ask their help, give.

:- Doug.

G*d
Invites
Challenges
Meets

:- Doug.

Will you help?

:- Doug.

It is now. This is a new time. People are more than we have been on this planet, more in numbers, more in capability. It is inevitable we meet. But how? In violence, stupidity, love, curiosity?

:- Doug.

We must invite people to their own party!

:- Doug.

Goals are about grabbing & getting
Missing giving & hugging
Life is both choosing & being chosen

:- Doug.

I disorganize so people work together to make a world they love.

:- Doug.

Can we heal ourselves?
Can we then hope
To help each other whole?

:- Doug.

A human being is small
Set against the rolling in of the sea
Crashing against rock and sand
Wondering Why?
The power of thunder and light crashing flashing
On a dark night
Winds! Proud trees snap and uproot!
Mountains! Forests! Plains!
Light years and quantum worlds!
Majesty also is real

:- Doug.

Goals create failure. Either the goal is difficult and we reach or do not reach it; or it is easy and so the gaol itself fails. And if we attain, what is next? An endless succession of goals? Or the eventual giving up of them? There follows guilt. Those who know no goals have less guilt, living by what presents itself, by needs and gifts; more happiness.

:- Doug.

We don’t live by goals—we die by them. That’s their purpose—an end, a death.

:- Doug.

How do we change the world? That’s easy: just connect the people who are changing their communities, then stand out of our way.

:- Doug.

When did G*d lose the ability to create? Why do you act as if creating ended?

:- Doug.

How many half-brained ideas we have! Analysis, logic, serial, competing, dominating! Remember we also have another part to our brains, and minds: synthesis, wholistic, parallel, cooperating, self-organizing. Not opposites, but contraries, necessary to each other. Include, please.

:- Doug.

Let’s have conversations that make a difference.

:- Doug.

We eagerly look for the first robin in the spring. Why do we not notice the last in autumn?

:- Doug.

The man had but one hand
The woman one eye
Another one ear
This one only one nostril
That but one leg
Grasp you can’t, nor see, hear, smell, approach
Any better than they
If you won’t
Admit we are more than one

:- Doug.

“For the next minute, I’d like you all to try just breathing in, no breathing out.” We cannot do it. Circles are required. Exchanges. It is not just with the atmosphere, for eventually it would be used up. We are exchanging with other species—the plants: trees, flowers, grass, all that’s green. Thus, we cannot live on inspiration alone. We must expire. We must conspire.

:- Doug.

It takes a village to raise a universe.

:- Doug.

Petals on the flower we are
Beautiful
Each one
More beauty
Together
We live
Connected
We work
Only engaged
When we breathe upon each other
We live
Flowers live
Petals on many flowers

:- Doug.

Community is primary because it is here that we are brought forth, here where we find our being, here where we make action. Here is where we make whole the world. Here is G*d: here we stand in the face…and make faces!

:- Doug.

Is the human substance dominated or dominating? Or something else again? For this we must hope—and work.

:- Doug.

Is it whole yet? Is the world whole? Then we have work to do!

:- Doug.