Walk into the life you long for/…
Walk through the wall
Walk into the life you long for
Make it your whole day not part
Give it its due time
Relax, it is here
I want it too
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2010
Encasing ourselves in cars to help us feel…
We encase ourselves in cars
To help us feel bigger
We whose child inside is shrunken
:- Doug.
You are exciting. You are the love of my life.
You are exciting. You are the love of my life.
:- Doug.
To work change, the social space must be narrowed….
To work change, the social space (between the one inviting change and the one to be changed) must be narrowed close to the point of being eliminated. Third parties can be intermediaries, serving to 1. introduce the two or 2. to bridge. The two could be in one person. Closing the space serves to humanize and personalize each other. The essential work of making change is closing the soul space between persons.
Group size plays on this. The larger the group, the more difficult it is to make this intimacy. It is not impossible. It will probably take more time. By breaking the group into subgroups, the intimacy is aided by closer physical proximity and shorter social proximity. Time is geometrically shortened because there are fewer intervening parties and topics, and we concentrate our attention.
:- Doug.
What comes of transformative community:
What comes of transformative conversation, changed community: awareness, authenticity, and direction.
:- Doug.
People are sacred agents….
People are sacred agents. They make things happen. If they choose, for the good. The good aligns with their truest selves, whom they really are. For some, it is an undiscovered secret. But they act for something every day, anyway. We can choose. We can choose to do the sacred thing.
:- Doug.
Non violence tends to define itself by violence….
Nonviolence tends to define itself by violence. It looks at situations as so much conflict that putting the parties together ensures knocking heads. It assumes conflicts, repulsion, fight. Instead of treating the person and his or her role differently, have we tried treating the person as a person? If we start with person, role recedes.
To see the world through the lens of expecting that everything will be war and people opposing each other, gives the world a certain tint from the start, and so this I think cannot do other than to color our approach to others.
This is not for the good. If we expect battles we put on armor, even if only in the sense of preparing our hearts and minds to attack. It is much harder to open and love.
So non violent activists could stand elsewhere. They are standing in violence, as in a field of knee deep excrement, and preaching We gotta get outa this place! Why stand there in the first place? Too much do we define ourselves by what we are not rather than who we are and what we do. What if we were love activists, love activators? What if we stopped labeling altogether, all together?
:- Doug.
My mind is spinning round my heart/…
My mind is spinning round my heart
I cannot for the moment my world figure
Yet levels and fits me all, this gyroscope
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1048–peace with your life.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1048
Make peace with your life.
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Why community is beyond predictable
Community is beyond predictable. Community creates action, emerges value and meaning.
:- Doug.
fight the rest of our days or stand shoulder by shoulder?
Do we want this person to actively fight us the rest of our days? If we want finally to come together, to work cooperatively, to find peace and progress, we need to stand next to each other, shoulder by shoulder, at only a slight angle: oppose policies and actions, love this person.
:- Doug.
in the company of many great people
Somewhere I read The new world we seek can only be built in the company of a great many people. Truer to me is The new world we seek can only be built in the company of many great people. Even if they are poor and unknown.
:- Doug.
love, concentrated
In community is the power of love, concentrated, connected, co-laboring.
:- Doug.
This is our anguish: we have no anguish
Maybe our anguish is we have no anguish in our lives, no room for it.
:- Doug.
