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Who are you, Lord? I am all this, more. I am all that any religion has dreamed, any mystic has touched. More. Do not denigrate any of my children, my friends, those who point the way; all point to me. I am ocean, I am he, I am she, I am enlightenment, I am way, I am all, I am. More.

:- Doug.

Sometimes we just have to sit and be
We need far less noise than we get
Far less busy-making

:- Doug.

…a theme if not a thread…
…a waft if not a weft…
God is more subtle
than we want to make
more pervasive, more

:- Doug.

We humans both see the way the world can be made better and get to work. It is human to engage head & heart to imagine, and hand & foot to carry it out. One without the other is not yet alive.

:- Doug.

About us
within us
is a greater
inviting us
“Come, engage”

:- Doug.

The hate-mongering political ads grow directly from our cultural mythos of warring and competing and beating others so we can win.

:- Doug.

Our community is too well organized
corporations and bureaus
mayors and committees
foundations and titled offices
councils and chair holders
all vying for power
all dedicated to preserving
authority & position
& nary an opening for humanity,
for people,
for making anything better

:- Doug.

What do we want, in our deeps? Inspiring vision, mission full of possibilities, companionship, reverence for life, being heard and hearing, responsibility for great tasks and great striving? We can have it. Dive in!

:- Doug.

Some people say our greatest striving is to be conscious, aware, awake, but I see the word they are looking for is imagine. For if we are not conscious of possibilities, we miss the greater part.

:- Doug.

The inviting lawyer
Inviting family, friends
Those who care
Young with old
Sister with brother
Husband with wife
Heart with head
Finding our common ground
Our common human humus
Finding our common heart
This kind of
Inviting lawyer
I work toward becoming

:- Doug.

Whatever you serve
—humanity, God, wallet—
is not served by making yourself small

:- Doug.

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:- Doug.

What is the opening
our hearts and heads seek?
Better still:
What is the opening
We can make?

:- Doug.

Invite people together.

:- Doug.

I’m 65: I’m just getting started!

:- Doug.

Getting to work: what’s possible now?

:- Doug.

Where is your heart in this
If you’ve missed your heart
You’ve missed the whole
If you’ve missed your head
You’ve missed the whole
If you’ve missed your hand
You’ve missed the whole
Where is your hand in this?

:- Doug.

Much of what
we think we see
is only that

:- Doug.

Seek first to give
See the giving all about

:- Doug.

There is another way to look at work and it might be closer than our common way to the really real. Rather than as an exchange of labor or services or goods for money, we can see we are doing good for one or more others. They are doing so too, but not in return. All, taking care for those in their ambit, are taking care for all.

What holds us back from seeing this, and from being freed into the larger possibilities it opens, is simply our mental constructs. We see a narrow world of exchanges, I buy this from you and you give only that for which you are paid lucre.

We could be doing heart-work. We could be meeting needs and even wants and sharing in the real cornucopia in front of our faces.

:- Doug.

The most valuable thing I have I give freely: Doug’s compassion. If you will, how will you respond?

:- Doug.

You seek jobs. Ask yourself, is it out of neediness or creativity?

:- Doug.

You’ve given me hope. You created something new. You saw a need and your skill and put them together, creating work.

:- Doug.