People put together their own resources
Open Space is where people find and put together their own resources of head, heart, hands, and need.
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2013
Four meanings of your life?
What is one meaning of your life? A second meaning—a moral one? A third one—an allegorical? And a fourth—an anagogical?
:- Doug.
* invites us limitlessly
* invites us limitlessly
We are large, holding universes
—Larger still—
We accept a smaller invitation
* invites us limitlessly
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1332–Invite, invite
Footprints in the Windsm # 1332
Invite, invite to loving ways and gentle
Give up, give up your need that they accept
Welcome, welcome the human ways divine
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Words mean more than the author
These words mean more than the author intends, more than the reader hears.
:- Doug.
Inviting all to dive in
Inviting all to dive into the stream, freeing oceans of currents, gathering all flows: divinity.
:- Doug.
Our electronic devices are making our world daily more sentient
The world sees the tears sweat and blood, the world hears the screams, the world feels the concussion: our electronic devices are making our world daily more sentient.
:- Doug.
embodied moving forces
Not images of things, but embodied moving forces; not constructs in our minds, hardened things, but living flesh: these we meet, these we meet.
:- Doug.
The stream flowing through
The stream flowing through is a stream in which we immerse, a picture-consciousness but without a static image, without images, instead with soul-events, soul meeting soul porously.
:- Doug.
The profession of people meeting well:
In the profession of people meeting well: I am exactly where I need to be.
:- Doug.
Reifying human being
Our culture reifies human being. We like all divinity are less noun than verb. Even this says too little.
:- Doug.
You risk newness
Every time you enter the conversation
it is a new event
you are new
you risk newness
conversation is a new-ing
:- Doug.
Daily to speak these things
Picture-consciousness
Immersing oneself
Poetry as event of soul
Increasing porosity
Daily to speak these things
:- Doug.
If it severs our ties, it is contra religion
You can salve the human soul with your religion—or you can use your religion as weapon to beat upon another human. Gentle and kind are of divinity. Anything less calls for compassion. Anything which servers our ties is contra religion.
:- Doug.
Words writ large
The world is transformed by words writ large—the eternal new words. The world is transformed by invitation to truth, beauty and goodness.
:- Doug.
The world transformed–our task as writers
The world transformed—that is our task as writers—writers of the words using us for their ends. The words instill in us an ownership of them and the consequent desire to spread them.
:- Doug.
Completing our living is peeling an onion:
Completing our living is peeling an onion: First we complete our work in the world, then our relationships with community, then with friends. The final layer is our relation with closest of family and here we seek to complete intimacy. We do our forgiving, thanking, saying our I love yous and goodbyes, all a giving of blessings. When this layer is complete, there is only the great open space.
:- Doug.
a warp and woof you cannot unweave
We cannot center solely on autonomy. Autonomy with family makes sense: both are true to life, at least in this day and age.
It comes down to this: love flows in many directions. What you want is mediated by the love you show your family. So your wishes about your time approaching death include life’s conversations within your family, a warp and woof you cannot unweave.
:- Doug.
