Balance is glossing over
Balance is an attempt to find a simple glossing over of the many interwoven complexities of life. All voices want to be heard, indeed need to be heard. Heard, not simply listened to.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2010
G*d is conversation
G*d is conversation. Free G*d. Show up. Be part. This is where you meet The All There Is. To meet is to touch.
:- Doug.
Pouring concrete around God
So many want to pour concrete around God so they can say This is God, even, I speak for God. Free God.
:- Doug.
in reserve, for what?
We have been given a life to live: we are living it as little as we can. We are holding ourselves back, in reserve for what?
:- Doug.
Life is both head and heart
I believe that life is both head and heart, complete only with both.
:- Doug.
You can be the one
People! Wake up! There is good work to be done. You can be the one we have been waiting for! You can be the one you have been waiting for!
:- Doug.
Through slats:
Through slats: We see as through slats, through an obstructed or partial view. When we move, we see something different—but still not whole. One blind man thought the elephant like a hose; another like a tree: all see what they see, all see incompletely. All views are lacking. Many are our own thoughts writ large—and these might be larger than some views, smaller than others. Through slats we see the All There Is. We are part of this, so how could we see it all? Be still in this presence. Know. Say a whole lot less.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1112
Footprints in the Windsm # 1112
In the nursing home
open doors, don’t-want-to-look
a baby gurgle
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People! Give head and heart!
People! Give head and heart (and see how necessary it is to give head and heart) to the world we are part of together. Jump in—the water’s yours and mine! I have noticed that the least effort often gives us the least results. Or the least favorable results. Throw the trash at the wastebasket…and miss. Go over and pick it up and drop it in. It would have been less effort to go over and drop it in to begin with. It is not just laziness, just taking the easy way. If we want to get something made better in this world, it is our destiny and duty to make the effort ourselves. Not complain to the government or some official. We are official—official people, official agents, official causes of something better.
It is a necessity. Not only do governments and officials and companies have less money these days, they always have their hearts and heads elsewhere. If we are the ones to see the need and opportunity, we are the ones to act.
More than this: we have hearts and heads that never ever will exist again in space-time. The humanity we bring, the heights we can take us all, the preparations we can make for our grandchildren: these will all be lost to the generations unless we act. And before we act, we must decide: are we just dead weight, or all in?
:- Doug.
The aroma of what you’re cooking
The aroma of what you’re cooking can waft and call many to your kitchen. You can feed people into the next century. Your voice can be heard beyond hailing distance…and time. You can attain the flower of expressing your most beautiful humanity.
:- Doug.
This is how I decided where my service must begin
Lord I don’t know how to think about you in a way that will help me move forward in service. Service for some might mean helping a few people in small homey ways. It might mean significant or even big ways or perhaps helping many people and many generations. My insights, glimpses and inklings are of over-all long view varieties. So this is where I must begin.
:- Doug.
On making the least effort possible
Life is not about making the least effort possible: it is about meeting life.
:- Doug.
Alcohol? Why would anyone want to get wasted instead of used up?
Alcohol? Why would anyone want to get wasted instead of used up?
:- Doug.
Resourceful and powerful when:
People are resourceful even precisely where they thought themselves resourceless. People have the power they thought they lacked—to act out their humanity so as to touch beyond their lifetimes and arms’ reach.
:- Doug.
Those of you who want to live:
Those of you who want to live: Decide. Jump. (Deciding is harder than doing.)
:- Doug.
On our own incarnation of humanity
On our own incarnation of humanity we are given the opportunity to take wing and touch wider in space and longer in time. This is our destiny, our duty.
:- Doug.
