Death and joy in one
Death, sacrifice, grief, joy, brightness, light, life
These all exist and in one:
person, event, life, living
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2009
What is the deeper profundity?
What is the profundity, the deeper wisdom, underneath the common Christian symbols?
:- Doug.
This is of the essence
Here & now is of the essence
not time—and its anxiety
if do we must then
let’s do what we can—and will
:- Doug.
We’re all poets and painters
We’re all poets and painters
given half a chance
even without pen or brush
our souls sing life’s dance
:- Doug.
It’s important we see in poetry
It’s important we see in poetry
For our world is more than prose
:- Doug.
If you do not see poetry, the question is
If you do not see poetry, the question is, What is the very best of which humans in this place are capable? Once you do see, you see the possible is within and among these people here now, however inchoate. All that’s left is for one to say, “Why, we can see to it!”
:- Doug.
Ask people about their highest experiences
Ask people about their highest experiences—ecstasy, peak, flow, rapture, bliss.
:- Doug.
how to make good human inter-beings
Maslow asked how to make a good human being. We now must ask how to make good human inter-beings, that is people who birth and give the fullest life to each other. Presence, hearing, attention are clues. So too stories and questions and dreams.
:- Doug.
This is saving:
This is saving: saving for life. Saving for living of life. And the living is in the interconnections, in between people.
The “saving” then is a saving for engaging life, not for some far off domain in some never-time. It is here and now. It is about us, as humanity and not about individuals.
This is who G*d is: a divine human, represented perfectly in Jesus, aspired to by the vast majority of people, but not seen. So the saving is a saving from the emotion of guilt and the emotion of O poor me inadequacy, toward collaboration and action.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 918
Footprints in the Windsm # 918
Our job as children
Of whatever our age
Is to ever widen our view
Of our world
Taking in more & more
Calling it Me
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Fathomless, mystery, wondrous
I like these words: fathomless, mystery, meaning, purpose, plumb, boundless, compassion, universe-capable, jewels, flowers, complex, wondrous.
:- Doug.
People are purses–snapped shut
People are purses: gold and silver and rubies and diamonds flashing inside, and snapped shut—no, sewn shut! We can only open each other. The joke about arms splinted in Heaven and Hell is really a joke about life hear and now—if we don’t hear, we don’t know it is now. And so we have chosen to live in Hell when we could party.
:- Doug.
The untapped unwrapped potential of the universe
People are the untapped unwrapped potential of the universe. People are capable of the universe. But we keep ourselves under the grey cloth. Poke holes! Poke holes! See the rainbow lights! They are coming from you! They are coming from us! They are you! They are us! O the places we can still go! Not in the future, but Now! Here!
You are capable of the universe! Acting together, we can create a better peace, feeding, sheltering, caring, loving, a larger humanity. This is our purpose. This is our calling. This is our world in our hands. Today.
Our world in our hands. Our world is in our hands. Let us poke holes and peek. Let us lift our voices and use our bodies for truth, for beauty, for good.
:- Doug.
Blooms and blossoms
Blooms and blossoms—people are
Blooms and blossoms—barely hidden
Blooms and blossoms—in each person
Blooms and blossoms—nipped in the bud
Blooms and blossoms—eaten or rotten
Blooms and blossoms—worm, disease and nipping we do not need
Blooms and blossoms—flowers we can have
Blooms and blossoms—see, really see…and smile
Blooms and blossoms—hear, attend, hear
Blooms and blossoms—gather us
:- Doug.
Goals are for people who need something external
Goals are for people who need something external to tell them when they get “there.” More than that, people who need to know they’ve got somewhere (and can stop now). Some surmise that the world is—or at least can be—created to be larger every moment, more complex, more wondrous.
:- Doug.
We don’t need a plan nor a goal
We don’t need to have a plan nor a goal—only a purpose. And not as well-defined as we thought. Purpose becomes clearer in collaboration.
:- Doug.
Untapped resources–every person you meet
We have so many untapped resources—in every person you can meet—that our task is plain—put us all to discovering the barely-hidden blooms.
:- Doug.
What first do we change?
What is the most important thing in the world that needs changing or improving? What is first to change in the world?
:- Doug.
What kind of people wrote this Bible?
It would be interesting to read the Bible with the question always in mind: What kind of people were these who wrote this? What was on their minds, what worries, grumbles, wonderings occupied them? Who were they that they might want to record something for others? To whom were they communicating?
:- Doug.
