within us is a greater
About us
within us
is a greater
inviting us
“Come, engage”
:- Doug.
The hate-mongering political ads grow directly from our cultural mythos of warring and competing and beating others so we can win.
:- Doug.
Archive for March, 2012
too well organized
Our community is too well organized
corporations and bureaus
mayors and committees
foundations and titled offices
councils and chair holders
all vying for power
all dedicated to preserving
authority & position
& nary an opening for humanity,
for people,
for making anything better
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1232–Imagine conversing with your family….
Footprints in the Windsm # 1232
Imagine conversing with your family about the things brought up in considering your life’s final chapter. Think of the specific people you’d want to talk with. Who would be easiest to talk with? Where would you be? How would you start? How might you get past the difficult parts? Will your family members disagree with you or among themselves? What good might happen in your conversations?
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What do we want in our deeps?
What do we want, in our deeps? Inspiring vision, mission full of possibilities, companionship, reverence for life, being heard and hearing, responsibility for great tasks and great striving? We can have it. Dive in!
:- Doug.
Missing the greater part
Some people say our greatest striving is to be conscious, aware, awake, but I see the word they are looking for is imagine. For if we are not conscious of possibilities, we miss the greater part.
:- Doug.
The inviting lawyer
The inviting lawyer
Inviting family, friends
Those who care
Young with old
Sister with brother
Husband with wife
Heart with head
Finding our common ground
Our common human humus
Finding our common heart
This kind of
Inviting lawyer
I work toward becoming
:- Doug.
No service to make yourself small
Whatever you serve
—humanity, God, wallet—
is not served by making yourself small
:- Doug.
The opening we seek?
What is the opening
our hearts and heads seek?
Better still:
What is the opening
We can make?
:- Doug.
Where is your heart in this?
Where is your heart in this
If you’ve missed your heart
You’ve missed the whole
If you’ve missed your head
You’ve missed the whole
If you’ve missed your hand
You’ve missed the whole
Where is your hand in this?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1231–It matters
Footprints in the Windsm # 1231
End of Life Matters.
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Work: beyond exchanges
There is another way to look at work and it might be closer than our common way to the really real. Rather than as an exchange of labor or services or goods for money, we can see we are doing good for one or more others. They are doing so too, but not in return. All, taking care for those in their ambit, are taking care for all.
What holds us back from seeing this, and from being freed into the larger possibilities it opens, is simply our mental constructs. We see a narrow world of exchanges, I buy this from you and you give only that for which you are paid lucre.
We could be doing heart-work. We could be meeting needs and even wants and sharing in the real cornucopia in front of our faces.
:- Doug.
The most valuable thing I have I give freely
The most valuable thing I have I give freely: Doug’s compassion. If you will, how will you respond?
:- Doug.
Why do you seek jobs for your community?
You seek jobs. Ask yourself, is it out of neediness or creativity?
:- Doug.
You’ve given me hope
You’ve given me hope. You created something new. You saw a need and your skill and put them together, creating work.
:- Doug.
People must enact vision
Without vision, they perish
so not just to have vision
but invite the people to
create
then enact
:- Doug.
A word to technicians
When we serve others, technical information is necessary but it is only some of the raw material. What people will choose to do from what they can is another part. It too is not enough. Compassion is necessary and not sufficient. Everyone affected likewise. What leads to a felicitous result is inviting all these together—then hosting whomever and whatever among them shows up.
:- Doug.
