Whatever…life
Whatever happens… is life!
:- Doug.
Is it possible this meeting could be more?
:- Doug.
Archive for October 30th, 2006
What questions remain unanswered?
What questions remain unanswered? Could these people help?
:- Doug.
“Doing” the “audience”
Do we want to do the audience
or do we want them to do us?
That is, to do with us?
What do they have to do with us?
:- Doug.
When calling a meeting, decide:
When calling a meeting, decide:
Is this the end of the answers
or the start of the questions?
:- Doug.
Why should we want to consciously evovle?
Why should we want to consciously evolve? As I thought about this late last night, I thought it a response to 2 poles: hubris and humility. Hubris in that we think we cannot improve our species; humility in that we are reluctant to try. Also, that it is necessary for the good of our grandchildren’s grandchildren.
Is there more here? What does it mean, grandchildren’s grandchildren’s good? That is too far off to imagine—and a seventh generation beside! What of our grandchildren? What can we do to make it better for them?
Do we do well to make life better for a later generation? Do we not have plenty of illness and injustice and forgotten ones in our own time? Does not changing ourselves lead to changing future generations—they see what works, they learn to meet?
But if we keep these people in mind, lovingly, do we not give meaning to our days? Is that then what this is about—a way to give meaning to our days? Are not there other ways? Of course. But do these not all point to the redemption of creation? Toward making whole?
For me it is the grey cloth and the ripping of it, the making poke holes, gentle little ways to say, This is the way, let it out, let it out! What is it? G-d.
It is wholeness then, fullness, completeness. That is what it means to me to consciously evolve. Why consciously evolve? To get beyond hubris and humility to wholeness, fullness, completeness: to G*d.
:- Doug.
Conscious evolution is people turning to one another
Conscious evolution is people turning to one another. Turning: a good word, metanoia, returned to its roots!
Conscious evolution: choosing the direction of our future, our destination, our destiny. Is it toward coming together or coming apart? Is conscious evolution to be toward kindness or toward violence? Toward living in anger, striking and being struck, toward living isolated, or toward aiding one another as a way of life? Toward destroying all who are different from us (who is not?), or toward accepting their contributions to us?
:- Doug.
The world will act back
The world will act back. The spoon is stirred too: each acts upon the other, both are changed, the in between is changed, the surroundings are changed. It is all one and yet a component can affect the whole. There are no catalysts!
:- Doug.
Love is the higher of the two
Love is the higher of the two. Love is the genesis of law. Law is a halfway measure till we can get to the base of love. Law is a way of making love concrete and easier to apply. Law ought to be flexible, not brittle.
:- Doug.
The meal is not the food
The meal is not the food
the conversation is not the topic
these the gathering beginning
:- Doug.
