Live Poets Society
Let’s start a Live Poets Society.
:- Doug.
That part of us which does not build us up will one day be redeemed, made over into what does build us up. This perhaps is the meaning of hell and heaven.
:- Doug.
Archive for October 7th, 2006
You are the most
You are the most unique, special, one-of-a-kind person I have met all day. (That is to say, You have that of G*d within you!) Tell me more!
:- Doug.
Peeling the onion from both sides
Pressing on comes from memory. Listening, hearing, is harder: it requires presence, abandon, all of you.
It is a peeling of the onion—you from the outside, me from the inside, both from both sides—till we meet between and see that our roots are the same.
:- Doug.
Sawubona
“I see you,” Sawubona, is the Zulu common greeting on meeting and parting. It is profound, saying I am taking the time to recognize you as a person. To reclaim you as person. It is bringing earthiness to the eastern namasté—for the person is.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Wind sm # 708
Footprints in the Windsm # 708
Heart is the heart of dialogue
at the heart of heart is ear
and hear and art
at the heart of all that is a
a single indivisible one
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Fundamentalists are people
Fundamentalists are people who have only heard part of the story and are trying with that to construct a life around their anger.
:- Doug.
Wanting intimacy
I know why people keep others at a distance (fear); the question is how to help them break through. The key may be: get them wanting intimacy. Perhaps find the original impulse. Ask “Why?” more. (Why did you move to Dallas? Why do you want to do that sort of project in your church? Why do you read? Why do you write? What do you write when you write just for yourself? What is underneath your public role as whatever your job is? Original impulse.) Go deeper than this surface pressing on, which is memory being active, to the original, the heart pulse, the new with this person. Slow down so we can uncover.
:- Doug.
I see you, I see you, I see you, kin
I see you, I see you, I see you, kin
My truth comes forth unbidden but welcomed,
the way prepared,
are arms outstretched an invitation?
then yes, invited too
my hands have to busy themselves
here, have some
if you like or ignore, or reject
still my hands have to busy themselves
and my mouth must offer, offer
I see you, I see you, I see you, kin
:- Doug.
doing and experiencing = getting and grabbing
Conversation is not about doing or experiencing (which is a form of getting or grabbing) but about meeting—about being present and opposite, being real so you too are met.
:- Doug.
Listening is something we do to another
Listening is something we do to another, while hearing is participatory. Listening is done serially and singly; being heard is often done synchronously and in groups.
:- Doug.
