For the sake of the whole
Do what you do for the sake of the whole. How many of us do this, and how often? Yet it is something that needs doing. It is something we miss, but is it something that is somehow done as we do it for our families?
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2007
We are the only two people
We are the only two people on earth to do this job, or we must act as if we are. This is scary because it will not let us escape; it will not let us say Let the leaders take care of it. We are the able ones; we are the ones who see; we are the responsible ones. No, no, no! We cannot say What can we do, we who are small and powerless. Jesus, the Buddha, Muhammad, Gandhi, King, Jr.—all these could have said the same, but they did not. They did not shrink from their possibilities. They gave voice to their being.
:- Doug.
Voice your own soul
If you are to be here now, you must voice your own soul and reflect upon what you see, that others—the whole—might gain.
:- Doug.
Group spiritual direction
What if we practiced spiritual direction in groups? Seek G*d together? Made use of multiple vantage points and divers imaginations to discover and create the really real?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Wind sm # 819
Footprints in the Windsm # 819
G*d must be full of wonder, too!
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clear lines
Blake was, in painting and poetry, in art and prophecy, working to draw very clear lines.
:- Doug.
Only one life
Finn Voldtofte reminded us
“There is only one life”
Only one life
We are of that one life
Would that we all touch that
Only one life
:- Doug.
Do for the sake of the whole
Do for the sake of the whole. In all that you do, do for the sake of the whole. It is the way of the one life. Anything else is lost in time. Wasted. It is not a mind thing. It is to be done with the gut, the lower the better. It is to be done with feet and hands and heart. It is to be done with abandon, with one’s whole self. Give abundantly and we will have life abundant. Give abundantly, pressed down, shaken together, overflowing, for here is the one life.
:- Doug.
Stay in inquiry
Stay in inquiry is a way of saying Be present, but in an extreme, to the far end of the scale, for we are saying be not just empty but be actively pursuing what is going on. What other ways can this be viewed? How is this different from what I have seen before? Humans want to categorize things and put them into neat cubby holes. We do not want to be bothered. We would like to live our lives without our straight lines being interrupted, without having to get beyond lazy. So: How does this bother me? Like a firefighter, go toward danger.
:- Doug.
I am a mystic
I am a mystic, one who has seen G*d face to face, who has stood shoulder to shoulder with this One, has heard him call my name, and mostly have heard him hear me.
:- Doug.
Inquirytarian
I’m an Inquirytarian: one who asks and seeks and quests for G*d. Not an I don’t know agnostic, nor yet an unbeliever Atheist, but one who does know he does not know and believes.
:- Doug.
What will grab?
Most people don’t want to accomplish, or perhaps more accurately, have given up on their dream of accomplishing something meaningful. There are a few, like Johnny Appleseed and activists of our day, who are actively seeking to improve the world. These are the ones to meet and help.
Still, it is ordinary people whom I wish to inspire to action.
But the issue for me has been finding what it is that will grab people: what are their handles, more accurately, their antennae? People are sensitive underneath all the desensitizing they have done to themselves. They want the higher, the good, the true, the beautiful. Yet we have over centuries allowed our tyrants to rule us and drive the inspiration out of us, unless and until it suited the tyrants!
So it is about taking back our world, taking back more than that: our will to make our own world.
:- Doug.
People do care
People do care. We just have been in the habit of thinking we can do nothing. Or it will take too much effort. It will: it will take all our life force. If we do not invest this much, we can do nothing.
:- Doug.
Who are you?
My questions about you are perhaps my “dark night of the soul,” a time when I am reaching out beyond where I was to see what we can be and do. So I feel like I am reaching into the dark, yet this is feeling alone, and the whole reality is likely more. To ask Who are you? is a way to explore you, to say you are more than I know, to say that I want to know you more. So it is good to ask the question as Where are you? and What are you doing? and What are you about? As I ask new questions, I learn more about you. So my dark night is an exploring, a continual finding, more than a seeking. You are then exciting, and my wanderings are not in a desert but in a vast and full and whole universe!
As lover, where do you wish to take me? How shall we intercourse today? What hide and seek, what tickling, what is up? Who are you meeting me within today? What questions are you asking me when I think I am asking you?
:- Doug.
the ordinary
Our work
—we must—
release the power of vision
that the ordinary people possess
—in the direction of love—
the new Heaven and Earth
:- Doug.
