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If you can’t see my ears, I can’t hear you.

:- Doug.

The President of the U.S., the President of the company, are both irrelevant. What we choose to work toward–this alone matters.

:- Doug.

The question is no longer What direction is the future headed? Rather, What direction do we choose to bend it?

:- Doug.

What are you free to do? What is something that needs doing? Do.

:- Doug.

How it would change our thinking
to know that knowing and not knowing
yes and no
center and periphery
not only do not matter
but in the holy
now
do not exist.

:- Doug.

Life is a series of experiments. Some go as planned, some do not, and in some you blow up the lab. From most you can learn, many not. On the whole, the result of the experiment is a puzzlement.

:- Doug.

How do all the filling stations around town get the message to make their prices the same, simultaneously?

:- Doug.

Why is it in the spring we notice the first robin, but in the fall do not notice the last one to leave?

:- Doug.

We spend so much time stuffing things into ourselvesand so little finding out what is already in there.

:- Doug.

We are responsible to what we do not control: we are responsible to life: we are responsible to our own life.

:- Doug.

To my good friends–

Let us take a day a month and honestly criticize ourselves. It would be a wonderful cleaning.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

How much medical care is optional?

This seems a radical question, but not when you think it through. In some cases, plastic surgery such as a face lift, is clearly cosmetic only, and not medically necessary to sustain life, or even a quality life.

Today, there are people who have to choose between medicines and heating their home or starving.

So then, where are the lines to be drawn? Who is to draw them? As medical costs go up, we need to address these questions. Even more so, we need to figure out how to address them.

:- Doug.

To my good friends–

What’s just on the edge of happening or not happening? Who needs to be encouraged? What needs people to jump in and get going? These are the questions we need to be asking.

Whom do we ask? Ask the people we know and would normally ask What’s new? What are you hearing? You have your ear to the ground: what’s coming? What needs to come? Where are the little injustices? What elements and attitudes would you like to bring to the workplace and the world in which you live? Do people need more humanity in some way? More compassion? More smiles? What would you like to see changed?

:- Doug.

What things want to happen in your communities?

:- Doug.

Seek not teachers,
nor yet to teach,
seek allies, con-spir-ators.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

Our job is making the world better.

:- Doug.

When we ask How? we are often masking a more fundamental question: What’s important?

:- Doug.

Is everything that can be known about G-d known?

:- Doug.

What do we not know about conversation?

That is a juicy question, rich, full, whole.

What do we want to know? What do we not want to know?

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

We need to work on the development of conversation–where can we take it, where can it take us? We live in conversation, conversation speaks us into existence and into a flow, conversation speaks us into waves and particles.

So the task is not to get people into conversation, but to improve the quality of our conversation. Quality is its depth, intimacy and hope. In a sense it is the same question–let us promote an improvement, let us find the edges of conversation.

:- Doug.

It is our job as radicals to bend the world to our hearts and minds. Never has the world come ready shaped to make the work of good easy.

:- Doug.

Make your life conversing.

:- Doug.

We decide what this world will become. We decide who we become. Our life after 20 is our own choice.

:- Doug.