Archive for August, 2009

Goal-setting generally pays no attention to wholeness:….

Goal-setting generally pays no attention to wholeness: just get me to point B. It could attend the whole, but if it does it loses focus, which is essential to it. The two, goal-setting and wholeness, are incompatible.

:- Doug.

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Goals get in the way of life: life is what we’re after. We must be wary of….

Goals get in the way of life: life is what we’re after. We must be wary of goals—their intoxication and subterfuge can try us. But let us give them their due—exposure!—and be off to encounter life.

:- Doug.

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Today in meditation/contemplation I attended to my heartbeat, deep.

Today in meditation/contemplation I attended to my heartbeat, deep.

:- Doug.

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What are we doing, macroscopically?

What are we doing, macroscopically?

:- Doug.

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Sneaky for #openspace: Let’s push the tables back and bring our chairs closer together. Let’s get up ourselves and move….

Let’s push the tables back and bring our chairs closer together. Let’s get up ourselves and move to another conversation, in the middle of a meeting. Let’s insert the snippable genes into our contexts in the larger life of the world, and see how they might grow.

:- Doug.

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Education is bad; training is worse. Both say one sort of person is better than another. Neither believes that learning is possible without them; neither remembers…

Both are based on intellectual inequality: the poor of mind or pocket, the younger cannot possibly have sufficient intelligence. We will give it to them. We will develop it in them. We know how; they cannot. Training is based upon these precepts sometimes explicitly; education is more genteel and does not like to admit common heritage. Education is bad; training is worse. Both say one sort of person is better than another. Neither believes that learning is possible without them; neither remembers that learning is how they got knowledge.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

I sing my songs in poetry/The tune is in your heart/And comes from there to me inspire

I sing my songs in poetry
The tune is in your heart
And comes from there to me inspire

:- Doug.

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The only language big enough/To hold emergence in its palm/Is poetry

The only language big enough
To hold emergence in its palm
Is poetry

:- Doug.

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All together the view of emergence is/Evocative/It pulls us out/….

All together the view of emergence is
Evocative
It pulls us out
Suggests larger worlds
Because it is of the whole
& the whole contains all mystery
& goes forth creating
& if we go along we might see

:- Doug.

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There are three parents/Of whatever emerges—/

There are three parents
Of whatever emerges—
Those who design
Those who build
Those who will live there
Each is unique
Together they see macroscopically

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 984

Footprints in the Windsm # 984

There is a “be there” button after all: it is in our hearts. If we can accept that we are on a round ball and we are always starting, then we are always here. And here is where we can have the life we seek. Not just for us individually. But for us as a whole, as a part of The life. So we live it fully. Here. Now. Hear.


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We start from whole and move toward wholer by differentiating.

We start from whole and move toward wholer by differentiating.

:- Doug.

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Emergence is the process of…

Emergence is the process of
Finding the life &
Making it stronger
Finding the whole &
Making it wholer
Finding the uniquenesses &
Making them more unique
Together

:- Doug.

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A pattern language is pre-poetry, a listing of qualities felt in something yet latent.

A pattern language is pre-poetry, a listing of qualities felt in something yet latent.

:- Doug.

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Going unfolding

Going unfolding

:- Doug.

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Life’s purpose—the whole—is served/Though this work be large or small

Life’s purpose—the whole—is served
Though this work be large or small

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

…/Destiny free of destination/Beyond dropping coins in your purse/We work to make the world wonderful/….

Having purpose gives direction
Destiny free of destination
Beyond dropping coins in your purse
We work to make the world wonderful
And each moment in it.

:- Doug.

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[image:] Just right ▪ Intensify life ▪ Purpose ▪ Adjust by Eye ▪ Step by Step ▪ Unfolding ▪

Intensify Life Circle

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In my heart, goals are too short-sighted. I prefer to raise my eyes to the larger, to purposes. This is where wholeness is, fullness, life.

In my heart, goals are too short-sighted. I prefer to raise my eyes to the larger, to purposes. This is where wholeness is, fullness, life.

:- Doug.

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There is a clue to emergence in the organic, the biologic.

There is a clue to emergence in the organic, the biologic.

:- Doug.

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Purposes, emergence, and @ChrisCorrigan’s next first step….

Purposes are directly related to emergence. They help engender the emergence. They are related to the inviting living question.

They are also related to Chris Corrigan’s next first step: he has intuited this idea, but not stated it: We cannot know all the steps because we do not know whether we will find rock or water or sand or woods in our way. We can only put one foot in front of the other and head in a direction. Directions are all we have on a round planet: there are no stopping places!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

Sometimes we might use goals as tools, or think they would be useful….

Sometimes we might use goals as tools, or think they would be useful. If that is how we have to think for that time, then so be it. Still, we need to do so within the framework of purposes. Purposes take us high above the fray where we can see the lay of the land, we can see panoramas, we can pick out directions.

:- Doug.

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To live a larger life: to see ourselves as part of the larger life, the single life of the world: this is our purpose.

To live a larger life: to see ourselves as part of the larger life, the single life of the world: this is our purpose.

:- Doug.

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