You can lead a course
You can lead a course, but you cannot make them drink water.
:- Doug.
Space can be opened every hour
for every course of our lives
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2013
Not just a bigger Daddy
God is not just a bigger other than you, not just a bigger Daddy. There is more in I AM. The former are idols: mistaking the image for the more real.
:- Doug.
creation and denouement
If you believe there was a creation, and there will be a denouement, then you have a doctrine of evolution. The difference between yours and science’s is then only one of kind or maybe only degree.
:- Doug.
Yours is the time
This is the place of divinity
Yours is the time
Now there, unclasp your hands
:- Doug.
So you can hear you talk!
These are people who are doing things, and you want to make them stop doing their good things, so you can hear you talk!
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1382–Two clouds, snowing
Footprints in the Windsm # 1382
Two clouds, snowing
Moving towards one another
Bump not, merge
Become one another,
Intermingle, snow, create
New shapes, emerge
As two or three, or
Maybe stay in their
More than embrace
Still they snow
Still they travel
Unless we look up
We do not see
How alike our conversation
Bump not, merge
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Goals are dangerous things
Goals are dangerous things
They can covertly deter you
From your purpose
Falsely make you think
You are doing something important
:- Doug.
Wherever we look, whatever we see
Wherever we look, whatever we see
The beauty we see in trees, flowers, gardens, woods, farms
Are reflections of the minds of the women and men who planted them
The beauty we see in nature about us, birds, bumblebees, butterflies, rainbows
Are reflections of our own minds as much as what’s there,
We choose what we see knowingly or otherwise, and miss what others in other cultures or times might see
The beauty—or ugliness—I see in her or him or Hitler or Saddam, or you
Is as much in my thinking as it is there
Whatever meaning, wherever we look, whatever we see
:- Doug.
Were Bohm and Barfield doing the same thing?
Was Bohm doing with thinking what Barfield did with participation? Certainly each worked to make the process conscious. I work to make conversation conscious, purposeful.
:- Doug.
Reaching out in scarier ways
I want to reach out in larger, scarier ways because this is my work and I need to push to expand conversation, even if I want to take an easier way out.
:- Doug.
Juicy and stomach-turning questions
You are invited to open some space within you to consider the juicy and stomach-turning questions with old and new friends. These people want the best for you, and want to help you.
:- Doug.
You are going home
You are going home. But this experience has changed you. And you want to change your home in some profound ways. So can you ever go home again? What are your first next steps? Who will be your companions on your way? How will you make the difference you are here to make?
:- Doug.
Practice inviting and leading when invited
For our pluralistic world, where each person is a leader in some aspect of our world, the leadership skill of the 21st century is hosting: inviting the very best of each person. Practice inviting and leading when invited.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1381–The person who brings the need
Footprints in the Windsm # 1381
The person who brings the need is at least as valuable to the conversation as the person who brings new ideas.
Please pass it on.
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Activate their hearts by inviting
What we can best do for these leaders is not stuff more in their heads but activate their hearts. Even more touch them in their gut, free them to be who they are in their essence and spirit. That we do best not by lecture but by invitation.
:- Doug.
It’s not about money
It’s not about money, it’s about conversation because conversation is how we create worlds.
:- Doug.
Offer exceptional persons standard fare?
Are you going to offer these exceptional persons a standard fare of one speech after another (where they hope to come away with one or two good ideas), or give them an opportunity to get work done and make actual connections they can use as a running start back home? Just another conference or make a difference?
:- Doug.
Challenge them to set their own agenda
The *only* way to cover all these topics and the 197 truly burning questions these persons are facing in their viscera, and to help them recognize their own resourcefulness, is to challenge them to set their own agenda.
:- Doug.
You have questions and you are already processing them
You have questions and you are already processing them. The time for teaching and filling is soon past—the time for being heard and trying out new voices is upon us. Let us open our ears—and hearts—to ourselves.
:- Doug.
All times, all ways, all actions:
What are you doing? Loving. All times, all ways, all actions: loving.
:- Doug.
