Archive for January, 2010

We are G*d, but we are not magicians (any more than G*d is) nor….

We are G*d, but we are not magicians (any more than G*d is) nor puppet masters. We do not walk on water, we do not feed five thousands. Still, we participate. We touch hearts like glasses lifted in celebration, and in that we participate in the heart of G*d. We are of the nature of G*d, spirit, wind, not defined—not limited—by any particular body. Still: quietly. Like a skin laid on the grasses, with and without dew, responding to the breath. We touch the one heart. We embrace. We is G*d. And not all there is of G*d. We participate, we are integral. We are not separate; we are part of the flowing, and even that misses the fact that the flowing is not noun but verb and adjective.

Adjective is to throw to. An adjective gives a picture of a game of toss—throwing to each other to see if we can catch. Also applies to tossing the conversational ball back and forth, seeing where it takes us. The picture is a good one, at least evocative: an adjective throws something new to the noun or other word, adding something to it, affecting it, changing its trajectory! So we participate in G*d by adding or changing the course and the inter-course of the personal: we, me, aimed.

Is this going anywhere new? The all as enfolded wholeness. We participate. We unfold and enfold, flow and particle like splashes in the waves. We clink hearts with one another, and in this is G*d: the we, me, meaning us.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

We are G*d: still we do not control nor possess nor even grasp; instead we participate.

We are G*d: still we do not control nor possess nor even grasp; instead we participate.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

We become the light beams carrying the infinite images from one jewel to the next on Indra’s net….

We become the light beams carrying the infinite images from one jewel to the next on Indra’s net. No longer are we static, or even flashing on and off, but we are full, we are plenum. We carry all, lightly: all are images and breath; all are light because brothers and sisters we are. We are full flow. We are valuable in ourselves and in all we reflect and carry and unfold into the world. We are particle, we are wave. We touch and swirl, finding what has heart and depth, releasing true beings into each other. Who we are is in between, flowing, capable not of being captured but only pursued. We are light speed. We hold everything, we are everything. We hold no power, except the power to open—to open ourselves, others, the all there is. And the power is not to hold but to release, to evoke, to invite in and then out: see and become all.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Heart: this is key to our forward progress precisely because in our culture we do not particularly value it….

Heart: this is key to our forward progress precisely because in our culture we do not particularly value it. Head we value first; hands a lot less. But heart hardly gets a mention, except in some sports (read: unessential) contexts.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »

People who seek an answer to every question….

People who seek an answer to every question…raise to me the question of goals. To life, there is no answer, simply the question. It is like the Cheshire cat’s smile, this question that hangs there in the air. There is simply more to be discovered at all times, for ever. Sometimes we are called upon to show up and be present. Nothing more. There often are no goals. The question, the shot, the journey—these are the whole of it.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »

Those who expect an answer to every question…

Those who expect an answer to every question, a goal to every shot, are bound to be unfulfilled. Life is otherwise.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »

We are G*d and yet G*d is more.

We are G*d and yet G*d is more.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2010 | No Comments »

…how can the defined define the definer?

You seek to define spirituality, but how can the defined define the definer?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2010 | No Comments »

Invite people to play together.

Invite people to play together.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2010 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1024: What is the bridge…?

Footprints in the Windsm # 1024

What is the bridge between G*d and the wholeness of the world? You are.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 20th, 2010 | No Comments »

We shall when we see into one another….

We shall when we see into one another know that we are, and always were, one. Then it is that we rip the grey cloth that covers us, and see that one rainbow light from which we arise.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 20th, 2010 | No Comments »

We have more in common than we thought.

We have more in common than we thought.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 20th, 2010 | No Comments »

A beautiful red cardinal…

A beautiful red cardinal has joined the littler birds pecking at the seeds on the snow. I have noticed that birds leave each other alone for the most part. The ones that attack another are of the same species as the one they are chasing off. They do not actually come into contact, most often they only run at each other.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 20th, 2010 | No Comments »

There are three reasons we bring people together in meetings:

There are three reasons we bring people together in meetings: to convince them; to gain their passion; to ask for their action: heads, hearts, hands.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

#Openspace for what is essential in life together.

Open space for what is essential in life together.

Published in: Conversations | on January 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

I must invite….

I must invite people to open space for the essential life together.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 19th, 2010 | No Comments »

What we are missing in our times:

Heads, hearts and hands together: it is the heart-part and the hands-part that we are missing in our times. But mostly the together part.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 18th, 2010 | No Comments »

I am leaving a gift to the world.

I am leaving a gift to the world.
:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 18th, 2010 | No Comments »

What can we bring to families, to public benefit groups?

What I can bring to families is more profound meeting of hearts and heads. What I can bring to public benefit groups is a faster way of getting hands and hearts and heads working together. What I can bring to organizers is help in that faster way, and a way to take their work to a truer essential life place.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 17th, 2010 | No Comments »

What do I want to leave in this world?

What do I want to leave in this world? People opening space for the essential in life together.

Opening space for all the other people. Opening space for aging people. Opening space for environmental justice. Opening space for the unheard voices. Opening space for better food. Opening space for sustainability.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 17th, 2010 | No Comments »

What is my gift to the world?

What is my gift to the world? It is my vision and my communication of that vision. That communication does not just mean telling, but engaging, getting people to do the vision, for the people to perform on earth.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1023–this piece rejoins that

Footprints in the Windsm # 1023

How we mend the world is through the stitches of conversation. One at a time, this piece rejoins that, and we begin to see the pattern of the whole cloth.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

The Way of life….

The Way of conversation
is
the Way of all life.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
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