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The fearsome part of conversation is that in its purest form it lets people in. They may challenge us, even kill us, or worse, our pet ideas. Yet this is its promise: more eyes, more minds, more hands, more life. Let people in. In so doing you chance to meet G*d.

:- Doug.

Conversation lets persons in Conversation lets person in.

:- Doug.

Goals feed the part of us
which sees what we’re missing
—the deficient part of us—
which take us away from ourselves
which tell us the better life cannot be
here
which tell us there is a better life any place
but here
which deny to us our own life and its relation

:- Doug.

Can you in all matters think of the world…and first?

:- Doug.

What is the work you are performing upon the world?

:- Doug.

I asked “Have we progressed?”

An answer came “The evidence
is all about you.
Some moments Yes
Some moments Otherwise”

:- Doug.

Is it possible to have a life all of one piece?

Or maybe we should ask, Is it possible to see that one piece while we are living it?

:- Doug.

In e-mail, it is easier to send than receive. Which is the better thing?

:- Doug.

Are you ready for these meetings? Do you trust people? Do you have faith in these people that they can do world-class things? Are you ready for change you are not ready for?

:- Doug.

Conversation takes us above and beyond ourselves. Monologue and monologue pretending to be conversation has not this power.

:- Doug.

If you hate meetings, I can show you how to do meetings that produce change.

:- Doug.

There is more we can do
There is more we can understand
There is more we can suffer

:- Doug.

What is this life?
There is pain
There is loving
There is listening
There is hearing
There is action
There is allowing
There is much, too much
Yet there is
more.

:- Doug.

We live every day and too much in the unventured.

:- Doug.

Have we even progressed? Is it hubris to think we can consciously evolve?

:- Doug.

Contemplation is sniffing and sipping the good air together…with G*d.

:- Doug.

Conversation moves us above and beyond and even within ourselves—to where we need to be if we are to be and to grow.

:- Doug.

Best of all—lightning conversation—destroyer and life-bringer!

:- Doug.

Hearing well and well heard, any two persons together can change the world.

:- Doug.

Change comes in through the ears:
For the person well heard changes
And changes things.

:- Doug.

Really heard is well begun.

:- Doug.

It is for you
I have been waiting, searching
You higher women
higher men—
You who have
Your desire your fire
your caring down to your stomach
Your need to bring another justice
Your mercy
Your willing hands—
It is you we all seek
And need
For you are the
World-changers.

:- Doug.

Open ears, open hearts touching, change worlds.

:- Doug.