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Conversation is a sharing of a deeper part of our selves. If we share and another will not receive us, we experience loss, even rejection of our very being. This is why we have such need to be heard.

:- Doug.

It is hard for me to stay away from the oceanic, the philosophical, the participation!

:- Doug.

Opening space is a comfortable thing for the group members as much as for me as facilitator. For one, each has an opportunity meet the deep need to be heard—and about something important to her or him.

:- Doug.

What age do I want to attain? Why? Moments ago I thought “a younger age” and realized the reason was to go while I still had my vigor of mind. Then I asked again why—why that was important: couldn’t I also show others a way to explore the territories that come to me thoughtfully, whole-heartedly, with love?

:- Doug.

Last night I looked out and saw a car drive past, chasing a pool of light down the road.

:- Doug.

Open space is invitation to shared work.

:- Doug.

In this life we participate in each other. The way we participate is conversation.

:- Doug.

We are the heirs of the scientific revolution. In that we are also its prisoners. We are set free on a campus with high walls and closed gates.

:- Doug.

What longevity dividend are you going to offer as a return for your 20 more years?

:- Doug.

This is a gathering of great need, muscle, imagination, energy, money, relating, time, experience, wisdom, desire, altruism: resources all.

:- Doug.

Do you want to be present for your own death?

:- Doug.

How much burden should one person bear? That is the question asked by meeting and conversation and opening space.

:- Doug.

What are the obligations to our society of those who are aging well?

:- Doug.

Focus, focus, who’s got the focus
of our conversations?
This is key, this is key
to our work, our meeting
our loving

:- Doug.

OST is the contrary of brainstorming.

:- Doug.

What is the work of conversation? It is bringing us back together. It is finding and creating our together—past, present, and possible.

:- Doug.

Let’s see what we can accomplish for people today!

:- Doug.

Each of us

humans in being is Indra’s Net you do not know this metaphor of old Hindustan? See a bejeweled fisher’s net standing in form of arms and legs, heart a-beating, imagination, a center of erotic vigor, dreams residing everywhere

each jewel reflecting

all the others not only in your net but all the others’ others

quantumly

look into this

ruby emerald jasper sapphire and see tears hugs loneliness full and empty solitude silence song dance family around the dying bed and the birthing bed rich panoply of languages

all is possible in Indra’s Net in your Indra’s Net have you watched all the dreams? Have you looked into and through each jewel into and through each of the ten thousand other potentials opening?

:- Doug.

We have a world made up of separated pieces of one. Perhaps we only think we are separate, and don’t look to see where we are each and all attached tentacles.

:- Doug.

It is necessary to have others. We cannot give without some separation, yet we are all one. A wonder. We are not simply alike, but one. We are not giving to ourselves or because we gain. We want to give. We like to give. We love to give…and give to love.

:- Doug.

We need others
To be whole
If you’re not whole
I’m not whole
Attend:
It is necessary to
Give

:- Doug.

Connect, connect
to the underlying
hear the bedrock
moving carrying
four deer loping
birds darting
across a grey sky

:- Doug.

Is life
happiest
in the tears?

:- Doug.