I don’t expect the President of the United States to change the world. I expect the people of the world to change whatever’s going to change in the world —by what they do in their neighborhoods— whether their neighbors are next door or halfway around the world.
:- Doug.
There are for me at least two levels of centering and release: the first is when my mind says it is centered, and the second is when my mind actually releases and lets me drop into emptiness.
:- Doug.
If you are without cash in the bank, you have done a good job of keeping all your resources working, with nothing left over. If you have accumulated a lot, you have merely been good at not investing in the world and its work. It is a difference of focus: self or world.
:- Doug.
A Will is the biggest spending spree we can have in our lives—we can spend it all! Or we can see it as our largest investment. We can dump it all (the dump cake model) or put it to work (the sleeve rolling model).
Investing can be anywhere we want: we can invest in stuff or in people. In people we can invest in bank accounts or education or spirit. We can invest in It, Thou, Among, Poet, Whole-making. So we can invest to meet needs of people we know, people in our family (It and Thou), or in organizations such as churches or civic clubs with whom we already affiliate (Among), or in higher broader things (church, political parties, art, philosophy), or in making the world more inclusive (humanitarian work, our own movements). People tend to see the choices as family or charity, but the spectrum is more subtle than that, the lines more blended—and more meaningful.
:- Doug.
Tell someone “I’d like to show you a picture of my children,” then pull out a picture of galaxies!
:- Doug.
The more words we have, the more things we can say, and the more things we can think, and the more things we can do, and the more ways we can love. Similarly, to what can more diversity of people together lead? So if we want a larger world we need a richer set of contact points.
:- Doug.
You made things better yesterday; today we can make them even better. This is the nature of the world: always presenting us opportunities for better. This is different from the consumer ads which tell us how incomplete we are; we are sufficient and the challenges we face attest to our abilities to meet whatever comes.
:- Doug.
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A ribbon of DNA we are inside the inside of the heart of us: molecules of interaction with the world: I-It, I-Thou, Among us, Poetry, Whole-making. These make up all of us, and of what brew of these do we want to be?
:- Doug.
Unknowable knowable mystery
Near to words, meeting
Beside movement, stillness
:- Doug.
What’s your journey? Where does it seem to be leading?
:- Doug.
There is a thing we can do
Beyond words, ideas, imaginations
Richness it releases
Into our unknowables
We cannot know the child in utero
Much swirls around us, silent we sit
:- Doug.
What have you learned from the down economy? I have learned that one can give freely to others, and live! And live!
:- Doug.
A blindness sets in
We tell ourselves we are fortunate
We have had opportunities beyond
Persons in poverty, in the third world
You are the man!
You are the woman!
Who prayed in the temple
“Thank God I am not like
One of these sinners!”
—The story is told of us
For they too have their opportunities
Who is to put a value on either?
Who is to say yours are better?
Some who never know yet are sick
:- Doug.
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