Quite simple:
It’s quite simple: You can treat the world as something to control or someone to meet.
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2006
The world is us
The world is us
The world is more than us
Can we meet?
Can we meet more?
When we meet world-Thou
We just may change
And be changed
:- Doug.
What does it mean to consciously evolve?
What does it mean to consciously evolve? To be aware it is going on? To influence? To dare to propose?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Wind sm # 692
Footprints in the Windsm # 692
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I am afraid of this sacrifice
I am afraid of the sacrifice of doing my lifetime experiment. And so I sacrifice that.
Our lives will be a sacrifice one way or the other: either we sacrifice our lives or what they could have been. Either we sacrifice our lives or what we could have done. There is a higher calling, yes?, even for those who follow: do we dare to join with others and do a large work, or merely work for ourselves alone, doing the little thing?
:- Doug.
Unexplained heat
Unexplained heat is often the result of memory firing. It is not present, not direct, and therefore not true.
:- Doug.
The role of myth is participation
The role of myth is participation: it is how we are a part of history and society and us.
:- Doug.
Insights come slowly and well
Insights come slowly and continually; otherwise, how could we live them out, overwhelmed? Absorbing, taking in through semipermeable membranes, making them one with our lives: gives us life.
:- Doug.
Not as much in control
You are not in as much control of your life as you pretend. What you are in control of are your initiatives toward life, the way you engage it. Control is a ghost haunting our dreams; we would be best to kill it.
:- Doug.
All have…only a few let it out
It saddens me that all have creativity and truth in them, and only a few let it out. Why? Why do I not let it out more? Too much to do, getting sidetracked, fear of others and what they think, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of meeting. Encourage. Engage. Honor. Courage.
:- Doug.
We are many
We are many: mind and heart, hands and feet, mouth to sing, ear to hear, molecules and neurons, taste and touch, motion and solitude, relating and meeting, dying and birthing, questioning and curiosity.
:- Doug.
G*d is the weaver
G*d is the weaver. Plaiting us together from before we were born. All of us humans animals living planet mineral star stuff universes: weaving, weaving, now, now.
:- Doug.
Do something
I want you to do something—not for me, but for you. —Not for you, but for humanity. —Not for humanity, but for living.
:- Doug.
While giving answers
While giving answers we are speaking from memory, dead past. Questions, however, are present, alive, confronting.
:- Doug.
When we rip
When we rip we
supplement our insufficiency of color
reduce our surplus of busyness
:- Doug.
A Bible-writing workshop
Let’s have a Bible-writing workshop: How are you going to get to know G*d unless you write sing dance paint G*d’s story? In the end we will plant our seeds firmly in the wind, throwing our words into the flame, knowing they will come back home fruitfully.
:- Doug.
When we honor
When we honor our thoughts and truths, say by expressing or pondering them, they grow. When we honor our vitality such as by using it, some we grows. Our species unfolds.
:- Doug.
