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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 629

What we need is the heart connection between the hearer and the heard, investment one in another.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 628

This is where we are going: changing the world in a fundamental and good way, so that we G-d the world.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 627

Are you playful? Today? In playfulness we try out, we pretend, we create. We challenge with impunity. Poke fun. Tickle. Tickle tuckle trickle snort.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 626

Being whole means leaving a gift behind for the world to unwrap and enjoy. For are we not more complete, more whole, when we give?

What is the gift I want to leave behind for the world to find? What would go beyond me and my name if instead just my light were left? What would that light be?

To see ourselves and each other as just a little larger every day, to be whole, complete and exploding. If just a few can see and teach others to see, soon we all would see.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 625

It is not that we have such knowledge in us that can replace a professor; rather we have such depth and height in us that is suppressed when information is dispensed from outside. Each person must participate in his or her own opening. Information and knowledge are of one realm, wisdom and Spirit of another. We as teachers must take care we do not become a hindrance.

Sometimes we do need to learn things and gather knowledge. But other times, we need to find what is in us: what we are made of; whom we yet might be; how we may serve; whom we are connected with. That we do not get from a teacher but from exploring our selves closer to the connecting point.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 624

I like the age I am. I like my grey hair. I like knowing that the world does not depend upon me. The world will keep turning without me. I like knowing that the world does depend upon me. The world will turn better with my shoulder to the wheel. I like not knowing. I like the wonder and the mystery of what confronts me at the age I am.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 623

The teacher, the insight, and the prophet serve a higher calling if they require of the hearer interpretation. A minimum of two understandings should be presented, forcing the hearer to examine his or her life. In that examination is found unconscious and collective wisdom, creativity, and choice. Get the person into his or her life. Stimulate wonder. Call imagination to action. Go out of and beyond ourselves.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 622

What do we want to bring into the world together?

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 621

Every human being matters.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 620

Incomplete sentences
lists
Spirit on the wing

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 619

In the face of death
it is right we should be mindful of our own death
and in the face of new life
it is right we should be mindful of our own life
to the end
that we might bring life and death
to all our days.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 618

There is a wind that runs through things
sometimes it permeates and rises
it is the look of wonderment
it is the green of grass, the leap of foal
it is the choral song of birds
inklings that rise up in your head
in all these and more, and more
there is a wind that runs through all.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 617

What is the difference between
the gesture of a hand held out
inviting help and one
offering help?
More than the differences
we see,
are we all
more alike?

We must turn.
How do we turn?
We must turn to one another.
How do we do that?
Where can it lead?
What is possible?
What is possible?
What is possible!

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 616

There are people who profess themselves to be atheists. Yet there is not so much difference between them and people of religion, as either group might think of the other. For each group is stuck in a picture of G-d which is a picture. Often it is the same for both groups: a beneficent (or angry) old man with a long beard, sitting on a throne, with gifts held in reserve and a thunderbolt in his left hand, ready to punish. If our pictures of life were enlarged, if we were to step back just a bit further so we could see a larger panorama, what might we see? Babies who melt the hearts of stony men. People helping each other when disaster strikes. Hate breaking out into wars from which peace breaks out again because humans cannot long stand to be in armed conflict. If we once take an un-pre-judged look at the world and see its all in all, we can be prepared to move beyond a picture of any god, to opening to the all there is. Then we stop having to convert each other and look all about us to see.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 615

Turn. To whom do we turn? Each other. This in between is where the magic is, this is where our divinity and unity is. This is love. This is the glue that holds us together, the explosive that sends us out.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 614

Jesus was not trying to make sense: he was trying to upset it. We should therefore not seek to understand Jesus, but to stand with him in improvisation.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 613

Outsiders are of G*d. Until we can accept them and love them, we are not of G*d. Either way, we are the outsiders.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 612

My mind today is a constellation
stars scattered in 17 corners of the galaxy
O to have them gathered in one place
But here I am
And there, and there.
So live where the light and shadows play.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 611

Children are not just the reason for our schools, but the reason for our future, our society. Schools do not operate on the children, but serve them. Therefore, the year of the child is about honor of the child, and a million Mom March on the school administration building is necessary to remind us of the genius and seed in the children, the spark of star-stuff which we must nurture.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 610

Ask questions, tell stories, seek dialogue, touch G-d.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 609

G*d is larger than any library, any scripture, any writing.
A scripture can only be a sheep dog, nipping around the heels
of something so large it cannot see the outlines
but only catch a whiff now and again.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 608

There is a gem among the grasses
and another! and look! there!
not every blade flashes
first this, then that, then one in the shadows
–from their bases they glint–
not every moment does every blade wink
yet all are touched by the dew
and may.

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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 607

Lines of relation
rays of the eternal, efinite Thou
mystery abounds
we cannot know ourselves
we cannot hold another
the between has infinite rays and strands
each eternally flowing to a center about us
each interacting with each, creating, being created
touching, expanding in all directions
faster than eye or mind can catch
the all there is knocking, asking
“will you come out to play?”

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