Archive for February, 2010

Meetings get in our way….

Meetings as we practice them, with one or a small number of people in front and the rest in rows arrayed out to watch, get in our way. They have their place—to rev up a mob or to inform the uninformed. But if we are facilitating action, then we need to get people together, meeting one another, learning from one another, hooking up to see where their common efforts can be made. So we need circles and small groups. The physical setting directly greases or fences off the ability of people to get work done.

:- Doug.

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

Control = Getting = Never enough = ….

Control = Getting = Never enough = Disappointment = Misery = Greed = Failure

:- Doug.

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

What is the relation between measuring and unhappiness?

What is the relation between measuring and unhappiness?

:- Doug.

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

Competition makes losers/Measuring people makes us small/….

Competition makes losers
Measuring people makes us small
Measuring subtracts from people
Measuring however increases one thing:
What we don’t really want.
If we are quick, we hear it whisper to us
What do you want?

:- Doug.

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

Measuring is a way of finding out by how much you do not measure up….

Measuring is a way of finding out by how much you do not measure up. The focus is what’s missing, your falling shorts. Why would I want to see those?

:- Doug.

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

Rush hour model of activism:

In our community many people have the rush hour model of activism—a thousand cars, most occupied by one person, jockeying for position in order to make it downtown ahead of the others. Thus, we are all competing for the same funds and volunteers, and a few of us will win.

The reality is much different: telephones, coffee shops, and chance meetings. Everything is done by people talking with people, people with 1000s of different interests engaged in many ways, asking for and giving help. With the meeting of hearts and minds much gets done.

It’s just so normal it’s invisible. What works? This does. How do we get more of it?

:- Doug.

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

Softly she touches my hand/….

Softly she touches my hand
not in the touch exactly
but in the the leap of something
between her skin and mine
here is where love lives

:- Doug.

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

The magic is in the betweens and amongs. Here is where love lives.

The magic is in the betweens and amongs. Here is where love lives.

:- Doug.

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

There is something in the betweens which heals the world….

There is something in the betweens which improves the world, heals the world.

It is the turnings of the heap, the turnings of the dancers, which call forth the heat and the music.

:- Doug.

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

When ordinary adds to ordinary….

When ordinary people come together, when ordinary adds to ordinary, we become a little more ordinary. Ordinary plus ordinary plus ordinary: in the plus we become extra.

:- Doug.

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

Footprints in the Windsm # 1033–Start saying….

Footprints in the Windsm # 1033

Start saying what you’re seeing.


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

Do we draw a line around ourselves, define ourselves?…

To what extent do we define ourselves—draw a line around ourselves? When we do so, we disconnect ourselves from others, and from the oneness out of which we have proceeded. Start with a human embryo, which grows by adding and expanding and modifying what is already there, not by grabbing parts off a shelf and bolting them on. Even the embryo came from two humans, who came from one earth, one air, one solar system, one universe, one singularity. So if we wrench ourselves out of the oneness that is one and say they are not part, then we have done violence to the all there is.

:- Doug.

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

…We often think we have to say who we are not….

In order to say who we are we often think we have to say who we are not, when it is more important to see that we is who we are.

:- Doug.

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

If you would have community, find the beloved in your community.

If you would have community, find the beloved in your community.

:- Doug.

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

If you’re not working to make this community beloved, then it already is beloved, or it never can be.

If you’re not working to make this community beloved, then it already is beloved, or it never can be.

:- Doug.

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

If you won’t work to make the community beloved, you won’t work to make it community.

If you won’t work to make the community beloved, you won’t work to make it community.

:- Doug.

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

Sometimes when we let out what’s deep inside, it smells.

Sometimes when we let out what’s deep inside, it smells.

:- Doug.

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

Hear. Question. Story.

Hear. Question. Story.

:- Doug.

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

We’re all working for beloved community.

We’re all working for beloved community.

:- Doug.

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

To tell a good story throw in at least as much….

To tell a good story throw in at least as much chance as choice. That makes it true to life.

:- Doug.

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

This is why marital love is necessary:

Wait to be chosen. Then choose. Or choose to wait to be chosen. Life is only full with both. This is why marital love is necessary. This is why spiritual love is essential.

:- Doug.

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

Security and safety…may not even be desirable.

Security and safety are not possible in this world—they are fairy tales, wishful thinking. They may not even be desirable.

:- Doug.

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

Some people demand change; I would rather….

Some people demand change; I would rather work for it though I risk being changed.

:- Doug.

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