Archive for February, 2008

Does the world hear

Does the world hear yet? Do we hear? All?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

to listen, to hear, for sure, but also

I see that you bring, say, your corporation-mind and I bring my creativity and human-seeking mind; I am not hear to fight you but to help form you so that corporations everywhere can get more creative and human.

Our response-ability is to listen, and hear, for sure, but also to evolve the species.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

More than answer mine

More than answer mine
Your comments tell me
Who you are and
How you think and
How we might touch

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

Creating persons–responsibility?

Since we create a person in meeting, what then is our responsibility?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

Anger–a cage

Such anger!
Such mien!
Anger—a cage—
Holds us back
From touching
Living

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

An opening secret

“In the present lies hidden what can become.” (Maurice Friedman in Martin Buber, The Knowledge of Man, p 39) We therefore have an opening secret which we want to become known: people have potential, and much of it is in the between.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Emergence of Persons

We are more about the
Emergence
of Persons
Than doings
For doings end
Ever Persons
Can do

From what submergence
Emerge?
Bending the knee
Breaking the back
Saving & spending
Getting & hoarding
Yawning

To what air
Does Person emerge?
Standing over against
This world
Meeting
Demanding
Its best

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Still: here it is we are strongest

We are up-tight
We don’t know how to converse
About matters at
Our core
We are scared
We fear
We may be found out
Our beliefs exposed
Still: here it is we are strongest
Most alive
In our vulnerability
In us

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Some of us write novels

Some of us write novels
Some of us write poems
Some of us write how-to
Some of us read
Some of us converse
The highest of these is
Intercourse

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Motivating vision

When we move to touching each other and relating, then we have a motivating vision, for it moves us outside of ourselves. Motivation inward leads only to rot; motivation outward leads to growth.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Who are you? Friend.

Who are you, friend?
Who are you? Friend.
I meet—I am—you all—

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Person-izing personalizing

Person-izing G*d can lead us astray; personalizing G*d is true. G*d: as wide as the East; as personal as the West.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 834

Footprints in the Windsm # 834

We yet might touch our hope if—
If we stand upon our heart


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on February 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

This is why I need other people

This is why I need other people. A small metaphor of G*d living inside my head is not enough (a reason is that our thoughts eddy in their accustomed pools, do not allow us out); G*d truly meets us in intercourse with other people, and not just through them. We are that of G*d. Our meeting is that of G*d. We are living in Heaven. We have all challenges-opportunities-demonics-divinity. It is our task to make all work together for good, and it is this that is of G*d.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

we have so narrowed the words

Martin Buber suggests that relation has these things: mutual confirmation; cooperation; genuine dialogue. These help me understand what I am working on: mutual confirmation of which hearing is key; working together; genuine dialogue—which suggests to me that we have so narrowed the words conversation, intercourse, and relation, that we miss the larger world that is possible.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

to put a human face upon the world

Seek to see others not as other but as others, to put a human face on the world, the masses, our challenge-opportunities. We are the ones we seek, not the problems. This perhaps (!) is Heaven. We are to seek each other out, not wall ourselves away from each other. We are real; our mind-made clutchings are crazy-making.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

Butterfly this world

Butterfly this world
Open it up—
Give its peoples wing—
Give it wing—
To fly among—

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

Seek no objects

In guardianships
In immigration
In what we assume is
Doing good
Or fighting evil
In life entire
Seek out
Others rather than other
Seek no objects to act upon—
More humanly—
Make relation know persons—

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

catching phrases catching life

I like this kind of writing, catching phrases catching life breaking open words and person seeing hearing touching tasting smelling who might be we

No period

No terminus we go on for ever for ever we are needed

Needful are we does this mean we have needs or are needed to fulfill others yes of course

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

Not my creator

G* is not my creator
—That’s a human construct
And for me much too—

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

The intention of the

G*d is the intention of the universe. Intention always moves toward pattern & pattern is always in relation to, that is, toward the rest. Pattern is the definition of love.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

G-d is beyond

G-d is beyond
Our metaphors
A living, breathing
Now and Hear

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

To free the expanse of the voiceless

To free the Expanse of the voiceless—there is something that we need to hear to make the world whole—all that it can be. We are inserted into a growing world, not a fixed one. Fixed is dying. Live is growing.

Why is it urgent? Simply because people are dying and suffering and we can with an ear—a word heard—make it wholer. Simply because we are missing opportunities to make the present and the future fuller for us all.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on February 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
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