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What needs to change? What do you want to change? Find someone and converse about these.

:- Doug.

The hardest thing in the world is to tell the truth
The easiest is to tell the truth
It is hardest because it won’t let you go
It is easiest because all you have to do is let go
Hardest because you hide from it
Because you have to let go of your whole self
Easiest because it seeks you
Because it is everywhere to embrace you

:- Doug.

What are you praying about these days? Writing poetry about? If you were a poet what would you write about? Find someone and converse about these.

:- Doug.

Love is the desire for relation. More than that, love is the action of relation.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

Like it or not, admit it or not, this is what even business is about: reaching for the reaching back. Make it larger. Wanting to hold my land and all that touches it. It may be mis-apprehended, but it is the base of the greed (greed is daughter to love?!), and of the desire to conquer and subdue (fear is daughter to love? shadow to love?). Apprehension then is a reaching for the reaching back, but often forgets that what is primary is the reach back, not the grasp. We are therefore not even here to serve one another: bedrock is the need to be touched. Are you therefore only touched with the gold of another’s purse, or their being? What do you really need, a mansion or to be respected, apprehended for who you are?

Yes, I am striking at the very base of the tree grafted to the root of modern business. But business could move back to its root and grow stronger on the main stem of that root. What might that be? I do not know; that is for people to grow themselves. What it seems to me is the idea of helping one another on a wide scale: creating wealth and health and prosperity for humanity. This is the root of business: humanity.

:- Doug.

It is time to move beyond the vicarious intimacy of TV, radio, music and plays to the real: living our own, writing and singing our own.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

In beginning is reciprocity. In fact, beginning is reciprocity. Buber says that first comes the desire for relation. This is reciprocity, this is love. G*d is love, G*d is reciprocity. From this all creation flows. It must flow from this: reciprocity births emergence. This is what Chris Corrigan speaks of (# 65): “our own capacities to connect and create emergence with others….” Emergence happens from the primary desire to relate, to be part. We long to be part of another, one another, a larger whole. This is our deepest, most primal longing. To be intimate.

We are reaching for the reaching back. This is why it was necessary that G*d create creation. It is inevitable. Creation, that is bringing forth the reaching back, emanates from the reaching forth. Primal is love. It is urge and necessity. It is truth. By reaching forth the reaching back sprang—and ever springs—forth toward G*d.

Why does there have to be anything, any G*d, is a mystery. Perhaps there is no necessity to it at all. But when there is one, this one must be love, this one must be a reaching for the reaching back.

It is happening now, this springing forth, this reaching for you—and more than that, reaching for us. Reaching for intimacy as action, reaching out, reaching out, embracing, seeking wider embracing.

:- Doug.

Between
is reciprocal
and the reciprocal is of G-d
and the reciprocal is G-d
all things emerge through the reciprocal
and without the reciprocal does not anything
emerge
in the reciprocal is life
and the life is the light of humankind
the light shines now in the darkness
and the darkness does not apprehend the light

:- Doug.

Our beginning is
reaching for
the reaching back
all flows from here

:- Doug.

Reciprocity is basic. In the beginning is reciprocity. Out of reciprocity emergence. All creation flows from here.

:- Doug.

Is there one you
so when we meet one
we are meeting
the one?

:- Doug.

What is the best of you? What is the part you want to grow? To give into the world? What makes you feel whole, large? What gifts do you want to explore?

:- Doug.

When the lion is swallowing you it seems important to get down the throat in one piece. Fighting only aids the chewing—it keeps you near the teeth.

:- Doug.

Do not mourn that it is always the same people who come—celebrate! We are among people who rather than see what they can get, seek to create the greater good. We have community. We get things done.

:- Doug.

Why will people want to talk? Freedom to give. An opening to be their highest and best. A hope to be part of something larger than life. Go to those who are already moving beyond What’s in it for me.

:- Doug.

Faces disappear
I no longer see your blue eyes
grey hair
wrinkles
our hearts are young
gamboling
not one of us is here
and we may just be flying

:- Doug.

Slow conversation grows bonds
unearths bedrock
goes beyond activity to change
fosters community and
humanity
Faces disappear.

:- Doug.

Look for found poems in everyday conversation.

:- Doug.

Speaking together we can be in meditation
perhaps even contemplation:
fully present,
we are,
we can,
emerging One

:- Doug.

A community of practice is something a little more specific, a little more community-oriented than a network. It is more than a knowledge bank: it is a knowledge factory; a wisdom works; a village center. It is movement: seething, working, roiling, boiling.

:- Doug.

Let us have a true conference—let us confer with one another. The root meaning is to carry together. Let us carry the burden ourselves, the work of making the world better. Sitting and having another do to us does little to further the work of the world—it is still up to us.

:- Doug.

There is danger in trying to say too much about what we expect to emerge from a meeting: we may circumscribe the possibilities. Instead remember the definition of emergence: something coming out that does not look like what went in, something unexpected arising. What we need to encourage is circumspice: looking about us to see of what we might be capable.

:- Doug.

I have only one thing to give you:
You
plural
interwoven
capable
Hear this now before it is too late
you are essential
I have only one thing to give you:
You

:- Doug.