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Silence, the perfect echo
Forget, forget
Grasping imprisons us
& the multiplicity of particularities
Forget & be revealed

:- Doug.

The world is polychromatic, polytheistic: so it is that I see humor and other multiplicities of meanings all about in mundane things. Let us attend the many things: the meetings of holy, workaday, scatological, higher, and soul.

:- Doug.

The end of life conversation is a work, a work of parent and child, of lovers. It is a work of life, of a lifetime, of art. It is bringing us together, and in this is my higher work, and the reason I am compelled to invite you to converse.

:- Doug.

The world and all its doings consists in the flow of love among us, a conversation of conversations.

:- Doug.

There are more gentle and loving frames within which to set our approach to any cancer test results seeming negative. Military and war metaphors, fighting and vanquishing, are too harsh for a part of a loved one’s body. When our grandchildren misbehave, we do not seek to vanquish and punish and kill them, but to love them into preferred behavior, to distract them if necessary, to teach them better ways.

:- Doug.

Economy is flow, flow of loving and caring among us, and our soul is this caring for one another. Gift adds spirit, enlivens the whole. Interest is good because it is a force of death, taking the life-giving things from us. Money truly does make graces as well as messes.

:- Doug.

The concept that each person seeks to maximize his or her gains and possessions is rooted not in nature nor in truth but in the system of economics we have adopted.

:- Doug.

There is a larger sphere of invitation for each, and possibly of welcome. The opening is the important thing. There is much love and gentle-kindness to add to the world, and I can raise my voice inviting.

:- Doug.

Put loving ways and gentle into the world and welcome those who do accept and those who do not. More precisely, give up the need for others to accept your invitations. This after all is what divinity does, accepting as good all they accept and do.

:- Doug.

Some of us choose larger spheres of influence.

:- Doug.

What are the
Things of eternal importance
I can be doing now?

:- Doug.

What is, beyond the meaning,
The mystery of our lives?

:- Doug.

We’re all in this life together—let us be gentle with one another.

:- Doug.

Life is not resolvable. It is not about what I did and said the meaning is; it is not about what someone else says is its meaning; although these are both parts. No one, not even our construct of God, can decide, for life, including my life, is limitless, subject to many interpretations. All is more of adjective and verb, less of noun.

:- Doug.

Living is a risky proposition: we cannot be assured of a favorable outcome. We go forth.

:- Doug.

The meaning of a life is a question that can have no final answer, no single answer.

:- Doug.

Open Space is where people find and put together their own resources of head, heart, hands, and need.

:- Doug.

What are meanings of my life? (It is up to me to decide.)

:- Doug.

What is one meaning of your life? A second meaning—a moral one? A third one—an allegorical? And a fourth—an anagogical?

:- Doug.

* invites us limitlessly
We are large, holding universes
—Larger still—
We accept a smaller invitation
* invites us limitlessly

:- Doug.

These words mean more than the author intends, more than the reader hears.

:- Doug.

How many events in your day?

:- Doug.

Inviting all to dive into the stream, freeing oceans of currents, gathering all flows: divinity.

:- Doug.