Archive for February 16th, 2006

You might actually die

To our good friends–

Rumi says When mind is gone every tip of every hair has a new intelligence. This hit me hard and so these started out as notes. Peter Block says we need to attend to capacities not needs (hey! Notice that capacity!), and that we can anytime and anywhere choose to look deeper, grow intimate, seek the ideal. Buber says intimacy, meeting, is a grace, yet it is all around us waiting, waiting. So Block is saying, or rather I am hearing him to say, make room: be roomy, Rumi!

Notice those capacities, anywhere, anytime; seek intimacy, ideals (what else should we expend our lives seeking?); be foolish enough to seek the ideal, the meeting, the intimacy and bewildered when you do find. Make room, not space. Make home.

There is a risk in doing this. You might actually die. People might not take kindly to being disturbed by what is intimate and ideal. They might see how they have wasted their lives and challenge themselves. They might think the prophet is the problem not themselves. They might strike back. Most people however are too asleep, have too thick a skin to even notice and when they go away they go away. Some few will be awakened, some few awakened will perhaps make a difference or at least agree. Among these the dangerous ones that agree and then go back to sleep, thus encouraging others to slumber as well. Some have been killed by such as these, or lulled into their own sleep. Some have met and found themselves so changed that their old selves have died. But the opportunity for better for all is what matters, and it is larger than the evil, larger than the sadness.

:- Doug.

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ever invite

Conversations: we can ever invite. Every one is an unseen butterfly in the chrysalis. Some may come out now, some later. It is a grace to happen upon them when the time is right. Yet if we do not look, we do not see, we miss the meeting.

:- Doug.

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Flowers still bloom in the meadow

We can only invite; little can we direct and nothing there is that we can control. So stand in bewilderment and awe; be willing to be the fool, the lost; throw yourself into what lifts your heart: this is how life grows. Flowers still bloom in the meadow even if there is no one to see or sniff; there is a chance, a chance, that a wayward bee or butterfly will happen by. Flowers can’t hold on to their bud; eaglets learn to fly; babies ever progress to walking. Hold not back, run, soar, dive into this.

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Wind sm # 643

Footprints in the Windsm # 643

We need–I need–books of the Spirit and people of the Spirit because when we are far away from the flame, we grow cold and lifeless. But when we are called back to our fire, we are thawed. The fire is at our center, the center of a sphere made up of all of us, and it is about melting our being into action and our action into being.


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G*d of the ducklings

G*d of the ducks and ducklings,
G*d of the rain and trees,
G*d of the cities and the open spaces:
You we embrace.

:- Doug.

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What questions

What questions tug?

:- Doug.

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If you will just

If you will just
set out to do amazing things–
like meet
and have a conversation

:- Doug.

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with to be

Sometimes I get tired of word studies
and just want
with G-d
to be

:- Doug.

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power and powerlessness

In powerlessness there is power
In power powerlessness
Yet the two can still speak with
when they try
or maybe when they give up trying
Oh what we all have lost
for lack of conversation

:- Doug.

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Be in the assembly

Be in the assembly
be gentle there with yourself:
Hold your tongue
Stand in your bewilderment
Give up your pond of knowledge
for oceans of G-d

:- Doug.

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