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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 705

Why do we not see the bigger pictures? Why do we not hear the conversations that want to happen? We need to listen to the subtle voices. We need perhaps to turn our ear to the sounds that are there with us. We need to turn our ears to the larger things. We live in the conversations that want to happen, and we are too busy.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 704

We need fewer transactions, more intercourse.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 703

We offer each other what we can
We stretch a little—we must
Life comes at us, we are buffeted
Now and then we remember we are life.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 702

We are not damaged goods, dented in our fall from the shelf, but incomplete, designed to be better than perfect. We are asked to improve the world. We are asked to help each other grow ever and always more complete.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 701

We can get creativity
and activity (but that’s not doing)
In good time we can get the quiet signal
the long insight

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 700

The day ahead
can be
a challenge
to be met
with all your force and ingenuity;
or a
gift,
a mystery to be explored,
a precious child to be set free
to be full, complete, adult:
Choose.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 699

Whether we see our task as making a living or something else, we are making a life. Day by moment. What we do is what we grow. We may not see it whole often, yet there it is, little glimpses behind the bushes that line the yard.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 698

All the world’s a conversation
and we the meeters and the met
and we the seeking to be met and still unmet

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 697

The sign on the highway says: “Advertise here. I’ll make you money.” But I don’t want to be money.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 696

G-d rested on the seventh day
—and not forevermore—
creating—loving—in our day—
manure producing fragrant flowers—
creative transformation—death
of death—unfolding love—
which day—or more—is this—the eighth?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 695

Try this thought experiment: think of a human looking at a cube: the human can only see about 3 sides at a time, yet there are three more outsides, and at least as many insides. The same can be said of the earth itself, human beings who present themselves to us, and the all there is. We do not see the whole, and therefore need each other to get the larger picture. He or she who thinks he or she has the whole picture is wrong. He or she who opens to others is enriched by a greater world, ever opening.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 694

Every conversation transforms: the straight towards using and tasting; the crooked towards living
Be alert
For your desire to know life grasp
For twists turns shadings quantum leaps surprises small poke-holes shy vitality
When we are our true work there is always metamorphosis

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 693

Is war necessary to peace?
Is disease necessary to health?
It is a mystery and perhaps true.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 692

Get two people conversing.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 691

When Meg Wheatley says, I don’t know why it is, but when people tell their pain we all get hopeful, could this be what is going on? In some way, even when relating past pain, we are in the present, we are seeing the pain today and what we can do within this horizon to alleviate it. That is the life in it: within this horizon. The aboriginal truth is that the future is over the horizon, the past is foundation under our feet, and the present is what we can see within this horizon. So what we can see ourselves doing in this horizon—putting clothes over the naked person, gathering ladders and paint brushes, touching and meeting each other—is of the essence of hope. Within this horizon.

Within this horizon we can see the grass and the mud, the house and the trees, close by. Within this horizon we can see the clouds and the sky, the sun, neighbors. Within this horizon we can see stars and heavens and infinity, we can hear poetry and songs of spheres, the all there is reaching to meet us. Within this horizon.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 690

Teaching and learning cannot be avoided
Daily life reverberates metaphors
Sounds call, activity rushes by
Sights open, habit draws us in
Attention costs what compared to its gift?
Life is hard but not how we think
Harder to notice than to rebuild the destroyed
All people learn
Life is prodigal, but is not wasted
Grade schooler, high schooler, graduate, stu­dent, teacher
Many courses, one lesson
One world to open
What do you see?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 689

The road to peace
the road to war
is through people.
You.
Tell me your story
your pain
ear is the heart
of heart.
This listening
this people
is the road to peace.
You.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 688

There is always more than we are seeing
our line of sight has a limit
the hill, the direction we are looking,
the blinkers we think bejewel us,
others we do not see any more

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 687

What’s on your mind that’s hard to voice?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 686

Deep within people is a mystery
Deep within the mystery is a people

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 685

In our meeting will be
awful masculine truth
and feminine desire to nurture
if they embrace
ahh! a child could be born
a child whose name is called
“our hope is with us.”

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 685

We are not in competition with the universe
We are not in competition with each other
We are part.

We are not uncaring,
Trampling earth’s species
We are opening our eyes
We are part.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 684

In being heard ordinary people become extraordinary.

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