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List painful ideas about yourself you have carried from the past.

:- Doug.

I am going to work hard at going slowly.

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Allow the others sitting at the still point to pull my pains and difficulties to them and breathe them out to the universe: rest in their work for me: allow.

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Aren’t children aged too? Why must we define everyone by age instead of by who they are?

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What lessons have you learned in life? Big and little, about childhood, marriage, work, friendship, everyday things?

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Meeting enriches.

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I would like to choose my own level of pain medication at dying time—and level of consciousness.

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You’re thinking like you’re just any old kid. But you’re not. You’re you. You will develop as you develop, and you have some choice in the matter. Someone gets Alzheimer’s: probably not you. Someone’s health falls apart: need not be you. Someone does something of profound value for the world: might be you.

:- Doug.

So yes, opening and deepening is central. Why would someone want to get there? To serve. So our eye is on something larger than ourselves: the generations; the planet; life; Spirit.

:- Doug.

Spiritual destinations can be described as concretely as say financial goals. It is a question of what one wants, what one accepts as valid and valuable and worthy. I choose Spirit. I have been afraid of saying this to people. I have long admitted it to myself. Now to express.

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So this idea of opening and deepening as the destination seems central. Is it? Conversation is central to me, bedrock, the field. Opening is to conversation, is to love, meeting, gathering, which is Spirit. Opening and deepening are terms for Spirit and Let it be. So this is the destination. Communion, poking holes.

:- Doug.

We get to our destination every meeting/gathering. Because our destination is opening and deepening.

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Learning—living—is a ratchet—with a broken tooth.

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The best service—the only—is conversation. Guessing, jumping in, will not do. We only serve—we only love—by knowing one another, being in flow with.

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Highlight your text
Then write it

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By asking important questions we start a process of opening and deepening…for service. Opening and deepening is the core; developing and seeing preparation. Service turns the whole to spiraling (love).

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What is the most profound work you could do?

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You I am seeing are the sacred, the spirit, the conversation, the meeting, the flow, the field.

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Our meeting a moment
a sacred gift
a stopping to attend

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A smile is young.

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The unknown
of God

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The unknown is the all there is.

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The ego goes.

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