Archive for May, 2012

We’re not all connected

We’re not all connected. We are one. Not an ideal to shoot for: a statement of fact.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

It’s a wider world

It’s a wider world
than what I know
& I don’t know
& I don’t know

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2012 | No Comments »

Stretches to fill the emptiness

Openness stretches, flows
to fill
the emptiness

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2012 | No Comments »

Activated by touch

Our antennae are activated
When they touch

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2012 | No Comments »

Enfolded within each other

I’m enfolded in something larger
It unfolds through me
I unfold daily
Who I am, What it is
Is mystery
Unfolding in my life
You’re enfolded same as I
And we within each other
No end no beginning
Mystery

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2012 | No Comments »

Why we come together

We come together because
That’s where we
Belong,
Become,
Open

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 25th, 2012 | No Comments »

Everything fits together

Everything fits together
I don’t know how
There is one breath
One thinking
One living
Only one

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

Religions to draw us against

There are religions which draw people together against others (the “we’re the only ones going to Heaven” syndrome), and those who call for union with, without distinction. Where is the path of love?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

Stupid in a hurry

She tried to pass on the right at 65 miles per hour, pass that is between the semi truck I was passing and me, with a child in her back seat. Stupid in a hurry is a bad combination.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

Is it really only stating what is already known?

People think of conversation as merely stating to each other what is already known. What they miss!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

The negotiation starts when you walk away.

The negotiation starts when you walk away.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

Either flowing or thrashing

We’re either riding the white water waves or we’re creating them, either flowing with or thrashing them up, going in the eco direction, or the ego.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

The whole is fully wrapped up in each of us

We might think of we as a collection of individuals, yet there is a sense in which individuals are teased apart threads of the whole. There is a scientific view that the whole is as necessary to understanding the parts as the parts are to understanding the whole, that the whole is fully rolled up in each of us. So when I speak of family, consider that I might be holding a picture of a whole, an unbroken thread back to Eve and Adam if you will. Therefore we might together catch the edge of the moving shadow of how we can be—and we don’t have to convince anybody, just be alert to what—and who—is already here.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

Seeing backwards

It is an abstraction to see an individual as separate from the whole, as it were drawing that limb unnaturally apart from its body. Mostly we think it an abstract notion to see the whole as giving birth to the parts, when we are abstracting in just the opposite direction. What else do we see backwards?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

Doing is being

There is no difference between being & doing, and doing is being.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

How do you want your children and grandchildren to experience

How do you want your children and grandchildren to experience your death?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

What are you doing to prepare your children for your death?

What are you doing to prepare your children for your death?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2012 | No Comments »

So hastily was Johnson sworn in

So hastily was Johnson sworn in on the plane after Kennedy was pronounced dead because we did not know if the country were under attack.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2012 | No Comments »

I lie here

I lie here
Mostly asleep
Writing the words
Of these poems
And then
I reach for my pen

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 22nd, 2012 | No Comments »

Because

We are born
& we die
We go through
This life
Mostly alone
We gather around us
& make
A small family
Because

A touch means much
His hand, her breast
Your hand on mine
Your word, my being
Because

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 21st, 2012 | No Comments »

The right answer to aging?

What is the right answer to aging? What is the right answer to caring for your parents?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 21st, 2012 | No Comments »

What does it mean to be a burden?

What about caring with you would be a burden? What does it mean to be a burden? Was it a burden to change your children’s diapers?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 21st, 2012 | No Comments »

Dissonance comes from holding together two loves.

Dissonance comes from holding together two loves.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on May 20th, 2012 | No Comments »
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