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The three hundred year project for the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

The universe is flowing. Moving. Processing. Is it alive? Who can tell?

:- Doug.

It is useful to dream.

:- Doug.

It is important for me to stay active. I would not live if I were not talking with people, reaching out, caring for others. The conversation is the thing.

:- Doug.

Be not whom you are. Be true to the flow around and through you. You are not. Flow is all.

:- Doug.

Just be real. Perfection? Does not exist. Complete: broken and missing parts. These make you whole. These make us whole. Just be real.

:- Doug.

We are in a bubble called the universe. Might there be other bubbles? Does our breathing expand the bubble? After all, a conversation between bubbles expands them both.

:- Doug.

Compassionate hearing is at the coeur of Eldering.

:- Doug.

People are so goal-oriented, and these are such surface things. Do you really want most in life to lose 15 pounds, gain 15 million Dollars? Are these not stand-ins, intermediate steps to something more important?

:- Doug.

Goals are about winning and losing, impermanent points of departure, always departure. One does not win or lose at life, one lives. Notice goals focus us on ourselves, they circle us ever smaller, while life reaches out graciously, copiously.

:- Doug.

Turbulence! Chaos!
We die!
No. You live!

:- Doug.

When I have an insight it is not wisdom, rather something to be shared with invitation that you share yours. For the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

One of our holy faces seems always to come forward spontaneously when needed by our community. Maybe from waiting, stepping back, making space. Are these loving?

:- Doug.

We are in this conflict together. I am as troubled as you, you as I. Let’s work alongside one another.

:- Doug.

Elders represent the future life of the grandchildren: elders can see the growing edges.

:- Doug.

I have a picture about what is going on. Let’s look and see if it is near.

:- Doug.

My dry nose! How it generates mucous. Mucous tickles: sneeze! My system only wants harmony and peace. So with human systems in conflict and chaos. Wait and stay together. Peace and harmony are at hand.

:- Doug.

Many people around the world are working as we are, for the grandchildren. Some are making the same discoveries we are. We may never meet and are yet open to meeting. We know. We have this faith.

:- Doug.

Goals only serve us temporarily; purposes have a longer reach.

:- Doug.

Go into the fire, kindheartedly.

:- Doug.

Every grandchild, every viewpoint of every grandchild, is inherently and integrally important.

:- Doug.

We cannot change the world of the grandchildren, still, we can to the change contribute.

:- Doug.

The word sin has the effect of piling on guilt. Jesus’s task was remove the guilt. But the priestly changed his word debts to sins, and continues to pile on to this age. Your debts are forgiven. Go freely.

:- Doug.