Category Archives: Conversation
don’t know where this is going
I don’t know where this is going to take us. I know that your objection or detour is an important part of where we need to go. I need to go to some place deeper with this, for if we … Continue reading
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the boundaries between us
It’s not the boundaries between us help us grow. :- Doug.
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Listen with eyes closed
Listen with eyes closed Hear underneath words to melodies Larger plumbs us :- Doug.
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If to be alive has value
If to be alive has value to experience to see your mortality then a person of accumulating years and loosening mind is worthy for us to engage :- Doug.
Conversation is art
Conversation is art not present in explaining it only in its doing :- Doug.
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or it is absence
Presence is receptive Or it is absence :- Doug.
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Where the tunnels intersect
Deeper is where the tunnels intersect. :- Doug.
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keep the hospital committee away
The second most important thing you can do to keep the hospital committee away is do a Power of Attorney. :- Doug.
whom we thought
We are not whom we thought we were Nor whom we might have wanted to be Yet here we are and we may then Find new selves in meeting birthed :- Doug.
Cheshire cat
It is the relationship—the meeting—which is real, the genesis of self and same. Self and same are the same word. All stems from meeting, like the smile of the Cheshire cat, last to go, first to come. So too person … Continue reading
You are really heard
You are really heard It really mattered That’s what humans do :- Doug.
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I was hurt
Perhaps approach this other person and say I was hurt. Be available. Be present. Offer and welcome. :- Doug.
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the person she or he was
She or he might not be the person she or he was, but she or he is not less than a person. :- Doug.
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Come, be heard
Come, be heard :- Doug.
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Promise to hear
True invitation is a promise to hear. :- Doug.
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Lawyer: person to person practitioner
Lawyer: person to person practitioner :- Doug.
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